Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Visually attractive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Seizing the attention; .

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  • adjective visually attractive
  • adjective That attracts the attention; attention-grabbing

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  • adjective seizing the attention

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Examples

  • More eye-catching are his boyish good looks, a gift for speechmaking, and inspirational biography and ethnic roots.

    Who's Afraid of Marco Rubio? Matthew Kaminski 2010

  • The Beat Ya Feet Kings have no shortage of eye-catching moves in their arsenal.

    Dance review: Beat Ya Feet Kings at Dance Place Sarah Halzack 2010

  • These political and international events were more dramatic and eye-catching than technical-sounding reforms to agriculture and foreign investment.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • 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.

    Translation 2010

  • The place was eye-catching and I had to stop to look around briefly.

    Valle de Bravo 2009

  • The near nudity, my forty-foot body on the LCD screen, was so eye-catching I wondered if it was a distraction.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • 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.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • 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.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • Instead, he put up lights in the shape of an arrow pointing to the neighbor's eye-catching display.

    'Senseless' Killings Link Four Victims Alison Fox 2011

  • 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.

    Wayne Rooney helps Manchester United put out the Fire 2011

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