Word Meanings - TANTALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment. Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy

Additional info about word: TANTALIZE

To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment. Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy life. Dryden. Syn. -- To tease; vex; irritate; provoke. -- Tantalize, Disappoint. To disappoint is literally to do away with what was appointed; hence the peculiar pain from hopes thus dashed to the ground. To tantalize, a much stronger term, describes a most distressing form of disappointment, as in the case of Tantalus, the Phrygian king. To tantalize is to visit with the bitterest disappointment -- to torment by exciting hopes or expectations which can never be realized.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TANTALIZE)

• Annoy
• Tease
• vex
• irritate
• disturb
• affront
• molest
• pain
• disquiet
• incommode
• tantalize
• bother
• weary
• inconvenience
• plague
• discommode
• harass
• chafe
• trouble
• Provoke
• Educe
• summon
• rouse
• excite
• challenge
• impel
• offend
• exasperate
• anger
• Vex
• annoy
• torment
• provoke
• worry
• badger
• pester
• afflict
• Worry
• Harass
• importune
• tease
• fret

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TANTALIZE)

• To appease
• compose
• forbear
• allay
• soothe
• calm
• conciliate
• heal
• Pass
• allow
• grant
• concede
• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help
• Compose
• appease
• please
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to TANTALIZE)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.