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catching (root: catch)

 : 
Adjective
 : 
catch=ing

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun catching has 3 senses

Adjective catching has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

catchinga. 
  •  Infectious; contagious.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Captivating; alluring.  [1913 Webster]
catchingn. 
     The act of seizing or taking hold of.  [1913 Webster]
Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Bouvier.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catching, adj.
1 a (of a disease) infectious. b (of a practice, habit, etc.) likely to be imitated.
2 attractive; captivating.

THESAURUS

catching

alluring, annexational, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, communicable, confiscatory, contagious, coquettish, deadly, deprivative, destructive, enchanting, endemic, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, exciting, exotic, expropriatory, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, hypnotic, infectious, infective, inoculable, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, malign, malignant, mephitic, mesmeric, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mouth-watering, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, piquant, poisonous, prepossessing, privative, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, seducing, seductive, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, sporadic, spreading, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thievish, tickling, titillating, titillative, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transmissible, transmittable, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, winning, winsome, witching, zymotic

ROGET THESAURUS

catching

Insalubrity

N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.

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