tan ‧ ta ‧ liz ‧ ing BrE AmE ( also tantalising British English ) /ˈtænt ə l-aɪzɪŋ/ adjective
making you feel a desire to have or do something SYN tempting :
the tantalizing smell of fried bacon
—tantalizingly adverb :
She was tantalizingly out of reach.