Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Visually attractive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Seizing the attention; .
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- adjective
visually attractive - adjective That
attracts theattention ;attention-grabbing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective seizing the attention
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Examples
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More eye-catching are his boyish good looks, a gift for speechmaking, and inspirational biography and ethnic roots.
Who's Afraid of Marco Rubio? Matthew Kaminski 2010
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The Beat Ya Feet Kings have no shortage of eye-catching moves in their arsenal.
Dance review: Beat Ya Feet Kings at Dance Place Sarah Halzack 2010
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These political and international events were more dramatic and eye-catching than technical-sounding reforms to agriculture and foreign investment.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Exhibit 2 contains, at least in Coward's translation, an eye-catching phrase, one that's become a catchword for a certain type of literature.
Translation 2010
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The place was eye-catching and I had to stop to look around briefly.
Valle de Bravo 2009
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The near nudity, my forty-foot body on the LCD screen, was so eye-catching I wondered if it was a distraction.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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As we played around with the word, we agreed on the acronym E.N.D—Energy Never Dies—to represent our friendship and our music, and to cause a little bit of an eye-catching stir.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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My hair was still damp by the time I gave up and began braiding the large pile into something more manageable and less eye-catching.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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Instead, he put up lights in the shape of an arrow pointing to the neighbor's eye-catching display.
'Senseless' Killings Link Four Victims Alison Fox 2011
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But Rooney led the fightback, following up his hat-trick in Seattle by levelling in eye-catching fashion before Rafael and Nani ensured United remain on the winning road ahead of the greatest tour tests against an MLS All-Star team containing David Beckham and Thierry Henry in New York on Wednesday and then Champions League winners Barcelona next Saturday in Washington.
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