Synonyms for tantalizing
tan·ta·liz·ing

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1. tantalizing, tantalisingadjective

   arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach

   "a tantalizing taste of success"

   Synonyms:
   tempting, tantalising

   Antonyms:
   uninviting

2. tantalizing, tantalising, temptingadjective

   very pleasantly inviting

   "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"

   Synonyms:
   tempting, alluring, tantalising, enticing, beguiling

   Antonyms:
   uninviting

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1. Toby Wilkinson:

   We may get to the point within a few years of knowing whether there is a chamber behind (those walls), but I think it will be quite a while before we can peek inside any chamber that might be there, but it's very tantalizing and it would be nice to think that in a few years' time we might have the final answer.

2. Sushil Atreya:

   We're beginning to see this tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year, i think there's something to it. I just don't have the answers yet. Nobody does.

3. Amy Simon:

   Every time we look at Jupiter, we get tantalizing hints that something really exciting is going on, this time is no exception.

4. Jeff Anderson:

   That’s tantalizing because it suggests that maybe one of the things the short sleepers are doing in the scanner is performing memory consolidation more efficiently than non-short sleepers.

5. Luigi Pirandello:

   Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind.