catching
/ˈkæt͡ʃɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.20 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "a pessimism that seemed to be catching"
- "Ah, who is this? You did not hear me, my young friend, did you? Why, you, too, look sad. My melancholy is not catching!"
- "Bomb guy looked her up and down, not because he was an attractive man and she was possibly a catching woman."
- "Though catchings of the breath and occasional syncope appear in the more early stages, yet they only become considerable and dangerous in the later[…]"