catching

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkætʃɪŋ/
  • IPA^(key): [ˈkʰæt͡ʃɪŋ], [ˈkʰæʔt͡ʃɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: catch‧ing
• Rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ

Adjective

catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)

1. (informal) contagious
2. captivating; alluring
   • 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

• eye-catching

Translations

informal: contagious

• Bulgarian: заразителен (bg) (zarazitelen)

Noun

catching (countable and uncountable, plural catchings)

1. 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

catching

1. present participle of catch