Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Visually attractive: an eye-catching dress.
Wiktionary
- adj. visually attractive
- adj. That attracts the attention; attention-grabbing
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. seizing the attention
Examples
“My hair was still damp by the time I gave up and began braiding the large pile into something more manageable and less eye-catching.”
“As we played around with the word, we agreed on the acronym E.N.D—Energy Never Dies—to represent our friendship and our music, and to cause a little bit of an eye-catching stir.”
“Instead, he put up lights in the shape of an arrow pointing to the neighbor's eye-catching display.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Senseless' Killings Link Four Victims
“The near nudity, my forty-foot body on the LCD screen, was so eye-catching I wondered if it was a distraction.”
“These political and international events were more dramatic and eye-catching than technical-sounding reforms to agriculture and foreign investment.”
“The place was eye-catching and I had to stop to look around briefly.”
“But Rooney led the fightback, following up his hat-trick in Seattle by levelling in eye-catching fashion before Rafael and Nani ensured United remain on the winning road ahead of the greatest tour tests against an MLS All-Star team containing David Beckham and Thierry Henry in New York on Wednesday and then Champions League winners Barcelona next Saturday in Washington.”
The Guardian: Wayne Rooney helps Manchester United put out the Fire
“Exhibit 2 contains, at least in Coward's translation, an eye-catching phrase, one that's become a catchword for a certain type of literature.”
“More eye-catching are his boyish good looks, a gift for speechmaking, and inspirational biography and ethnic roots.”
“The Beat Ya Feet Kings have no shortage of eye-catching moves in their arsenal.”
The Washington Post: Dance review: Beat Ya Feet Kings at Dance Place
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eye-catching’.
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eye phrases
eye appeal, eye-apple, eye-area, eye-baby, eye bank, eye-bar, eye-bath, eye-bedewing, eye-beguiling, eye-bewildering, eye-bewitching, eye-black and 320 more...
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Public List: Body Metaphors
Phrases that use body parts metaphorically.
neck of the woods, bone of contention, mouth of a river, teeth of the storm, heart of the matter, foot of the bed, eye of the storm, dogleg hole, finger lakes, headwaters, foothills, knik arm and 212 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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Body Participles
Words formed by joining a body part to a present participle. Used as adjectives or nouns.
nail-biting, arm-twisting, backbreaking, finger licking, lip-smacking, bellyaching, gut-wrenching, head scratching, toe tapping, butt kicking, face saving, eyebrow-raising and 9 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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The Spectacle
DISTRACT, STARE, CONSUME
(repeat)gongoozler, television, sporting events, blockbuster, alienation, situationist, technocapitalism, media extravaganza, sex scandal, hypnotic behavior, fantastic visions, prime time and 164 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
Tweets
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