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eyecatching

eyecatching is the alternative spelling of eye-catching.

Meaning of eye-catching

Adjective

eye-catching (comparative more eye-catching, superlative most eye-catching)

  1. (idiomatic) Visually attractive.
    • The substitute then scored again when the ball broke to him following another jagged run by Walcott, who saved his most eye-catching contribution for stoppage time, when he turned up on the left wing and scampered into the area before showing splendid composure to ignore a foul and dink the ball...2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian
  2. (idiomatic) That attracts the attention; attention-grabbing.

Forms of eyecatching

comparativemore eyecatching
superlativemost eyecatching

Questions about eyecatching

What is eyecatching the alternative spelling of?
Eyecatching is the alternative spelling of eye-catching.

Words near eyecatching in the dictionary

  1. eyecare
  2. eyecatch
  3. eyecatcher
  4. eyecatchers
  5. eyecatches
  6. eyecatching
  7. eyechart
  8. eyecharts
  9. eyecolor
  10. eyecolors
  11. eyecorner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eyecatching (page history and authors); eye-catching (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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