tantalise

Other forms of tantalise

past tense

tantalised·

present participle

tantalising·

third person

tantalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tantalise

What does tantalise mean?

tantalise means "harass with persistent criticism or carping".

How many syllables are in tantalise?

tantalise has 3 syllables and divides as tan-ta-lise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tantalise?

Close synonyms include tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tantalise a common word?

tantalise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.