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catching

  • adjective
  • catch·ing
  • /ˈkæt͡ʃɪŋ/

Captivating; alluring; catchy.

Other meanings

  1. Infectious, contagious.

Related words

  • man-catching
  • birdcatching
  • catchingly
  • catchingness
  • flycatching
  • molecatching
  • ratcatching
  • slavecatching
  • spycatching

Example sentences

  • “The mouse dreams of catching the cat.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “catching” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.