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eye-catching
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eye-catching
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an eye-catching ad
▪ an eye-catching dress
▪ The posters come in several eye-catching designs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He used to wear yellow ties and trendily-cut suits in eye-catching colours.
▪ I would prefer an analogue contents display because it is more eye-catching and less likely to be misread.
▪ Press releases should be eye-catching and on boldly headed paper.
▪ That is where Missoni sells its wickedly costly sweaters, and those eye-catching scarves.
▪ This eye-catching display contains tiny baskets of fruit.
▪ This eye-catching hairstyle really suits Debbie's personality far more than her original style which was quite flat and lacking body.
▪ With your advice we now have an eye-catching and comfortable home.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
eye-catching

eye-catching \eye"-catch`ing\ adj. Seizing the attention; as, eye-catching posters; as, she wore an eye-catching low-cut gown.

Syn: attention-getting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eye-catching

1799, from eye (n.) + present participle of catch (v.). Eye-catcher (n.) is from 1882, first in advertising; eye-trap (n.) is attested from 1785.

Wiktionary
eye-catching

a. visually attractive

WordNet
eye-catching

adj. seizing the attention; "eye-catching posters" [syn: attention-getting]

Usage examples of "eye-catching".

Their jewels, their ultrafashionable dress, their eye-catching coiffures had all been designed as advertisements to attract general attention.

Three flights above them the painted dome of the ceiling with its allegorical Biblical fresco was still as awesomely eye-catching as it had always been.

However, the ancestors of chimps and baboons must have evolved their eye-catching derrieres quite independently, since the ancestors of baboons and of the Missing Link parted company around thirty million years ago.

But I felt a clutch of fear in my chest knowing this eye-catching woman was out cavorting in a tight jogging suit, at a time of night when kooks were on the loose.