Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Very attractive; charming: a fetching new hairstyle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Alluring; attractive; fascinating; taking; “killing”: as, an awfully fetching bonnet.
- Crafty; tricky: as, “the fetching practice of prelates,”
Wiktionary
- adj. Attractive; pleasant to regard.
- v. present participle of fetch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. drawing favorable attention.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very attractive; capturing interest
Examples
“In case my spate of reviews should be giving the impression that I'm living (as my ex said not long after we parted) entirely for pleasure, I thought I'd bring you all up to date with what I'm doing when not swanning the theatres of New York in fetching outfits and neo-vintage hats.”
“I can get the obedience down, then let someone else work their magic as far as the force fetching is concerned.”
“Intelligent pre-fetching is a fine idea for boosting performance.”
“Wind and sea had sprung up, and the Dazzler was rolling and tossing and now and again fetching up on her anchor-chain with a savage jerk.”
“God had both ways altered the course of nature, both in fetching streams out of the rock and turning streams into rock, v. 15.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“The power of Christ, in fetching money out of a fish's mouth for this purpose.”
“The trading was broken into several pieces, with the calls fetching about $2.31 and the puts some $1.49, according to optionMONSTER's tracking programs.”
“But as NASA planners look hard for the billions of dollars for a mission to return a few ounces of rock from Mars, the notion of fetching supertanker quantities from even-farther-out Titan seems completely absurd.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Philip Neches: The Gulf Oil Spill: What Peak Oil Looks Like
“According to the Full-Disclosure advisory, a feature known as DNS pre-fetching, which is enabled by default, is responsible for the loss of anonymity.”
“With the January 100 calls fetching $2.53 apiece, Amazon shares would have to eclipse their 52-week high of $101.09 for the trade to pay off.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fetching’.
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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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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 260 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 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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beautiful words
words that sound pretty and have a pretty meaning
bucolic, dalliance, dulcet, ebullience, effervescent, efflorescence, eloquence, felicity, fetching
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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Wordie Working Overtime - some words ...
Some words of from XTC songs that I like or for some reason stand out. That and a dollar will get you a ride on the bus.
transistor, impaled, settee, sunspecs, neon, meccanic, infatuation, greenhouse, capers, consequence, excepted, helicopter and 112 more...
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snickclunk's Words
bespoke, freshet, coquette, lath, victrola, feckless, viridian, lariat, sargasso, sobriquet, grift, sophistry and 134 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Favorite Words
i love words.
ricochet, clavicle, etymology, equivocate, decoupage, dillydally, effervescent, flimflam, haberdashery, hullabaloo, debacle, juxtapose and 210 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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supplementary
for enhancement of any English test
consanguineous, worldly, naiveté, enshroud, pernicious, prerogative, traitor, fledgling, vengeance, provision, furnish, quarrel and 94 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fetching.
madmouth Unfortunate Sound-Alikes Jun 30, 2009
yarb Like felching, but more traditional. Jun 30, 2009
madmouth a delicate implication of sex appeal. Jun 30, 2009
reesetee What a handsome word. ;-) Sep 16, 2007
sonofgroucho Even more old-fashioned than handsome. Sep 16, 2007