catchy
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Catchy \Catch"y\, a.
1. Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching;
taking; as, catchy music.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used
fig.; as, a catchy question.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or
snatches; changeable; as, a catchy wind.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
It [the fox's scent] is . . . flighty or catchy, if
variable. --Encyc. of
Sport.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "catchy":
achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose,
arioso, beguiling, broken, canorous, cantabile, capricious,
careening, choppy, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory,
desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, dubious, dulcet,
eccentric, erratic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fallacious,
false, fine-toned, fishy, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, golden,
golden-tongued, golden-voiced, guttering, hallucinatory, halting,
herky-jerky, heteroclite, honeyed, illusive, illusory,
immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting, irregular,
jerky, lurching, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant,
mellow, melodic, melodious, misleading, music-flowing, music-like,
musical, nonuniform, on-again-off-again, patchy, pleasant,
pleasant-sounding, questionable, rambling, rich, rough, scrappy,
silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable,
snatchy, songful, songlike, sonorous, spasmatic, spasmic,
spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, sweet,
sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, trickish, tricksy, tricky, tunable,
tuneful, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical,
unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic,
variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly
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