Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Attractive or appealing.
  • adjective Easily remembered.
  • adjective Tricky; deceptive.
  • adjective Fitful or spasmodic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as catching, 2.
  • Same as catching

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking.
  • adjective Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used fig..
  • adjective Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective likely to attract attention
  • adjective having concealed difficulty

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Examples

  • Put yourself in the recipients shoes and then think that he might be busy, he might be focused on his own work, he even might not have time to clear the inbox … One more email might prove to a be big problem for him … So keep the title catchy to tempt his nerves to the limit.

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  • Put yourself in the recipients shoes and then think that he might be busy, he might be focused on his own work, he even might not have time to clear the inbox … One more email might prove to a be big problem for him … So keep the title catchy to tempt his nerves to the limit.

    PageTraffic SEO Blog 2008

  • I have a couple of L Gaga songs on the IPHONE. .catchy is the word

    Cheeseburger Gothic » That went well. 2010

  • The cover artwork is catchy from a distance (so good for book shelves).

    SciFi UK Review | Archive | July 2008

  • The cover artwork is catchy from a distance (so good for book shelves).

    Flames Of Herakleitos: Bob Lock: Screaming Dreams | SciFi UK Review 2008

  • The little newspaper might be called "The Family Times," or "The Humphrey Home," or something catchy from the mouths of your own babes.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • First, she makes for good copy and has a knack for coining catchy phrases ( "death panels") and new words ( "refudiate" -- it's now in the dictionary).

    The myth of Palin's frontrunner status Jennifer Rubin 2010

  • The little newspaper might be called "The Family Times," or "The Humphrey Home," or something catchy from the mouths of your own babes.

    The Home Newspaper 2008

  • O'Reilly has an amazing, wonderful gift for popularizing hard ideas and for explaining abstruse technology in catchy ways.

    Boing Boing: May 21, 2006 - May 27, 2006 Archives 2006

  • The name was catchy, but the description was so confusing that I had to take the publicist up on his offer to meet the website's creator.

    Zandile Blay: A Peek at a "Sneaqy" New Fashion App on Facebook Zandile Blay 2011

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  • I find this word ugly. Not in sound, but in appearance.

    December 1, 2007