catching
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)
- (informal) Infectious, contagious.
- 1857, Herman Melville, chapter V, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
- Ah, who is this? You did not hear me, my young friend, did you? Why, you, too, look sad. My melancholy is not catching!
- Captivating; alluring; catchy.
- 2013, R. T. Wolfe, Dark Vengeance:
- Bomb guy looked her up and down, not because he was an attractive man and she was possibly a catching woman.
Hyponyms
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[edit]informal: contagious
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captivating; alluring
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Noun
[edit]catching (countable and uncountable, plural catchings)
- The action of the verb catch.
- 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary:
- Though catchings of the breath and occasional syncope appear in the more early stages, yet they only become considerable and dangerous in the later […]
Verb
[edit]catching
- present participle and gerund of catch
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