Tantalizing

Full definition of tantalizing

Adjective

1. Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
• 1851 — Herman Melville, , 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

1. Present participle of tantalize