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Though-provoking vs Tantalizing - What's the difference?

though-provoking | tantalizing | Related terms |

Though-provoking is a related term of tantalizing.


As an adjective tantalizing is

teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.

As a verb tantalizing is

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though-provoking

Not English

Though-provoking has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

tantalizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
  • Verb

    (head)