catching

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkætʃɪŋ/, /ˈkɛtʃɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ, -ɛtʃɪŋ
• Hyphenation: catch‧ing

Adjective

catching (comparative more catching, superlative most catching)

1. (informal) infectious, contagious
2. 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

• eye-catching

Translations

informal: contagious

• Bulgarian: заразителен (bg) (zarazitelen)

captivating; alluring

• Bulgarian: привлекателен (bg) (privlekatelen)

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