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catchy

[kach-ee]

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adjective, catch·i·er, catch·i·est.

pleasing and easily remembered: a catchy tune.

likely to attract interest or attention: a catchy title for a movie.

tricky; deceptive: a catchy question.

occurring in snatches; fitful: a catchy wind.

Origin:
1795–1805; catch + -y¹

Related forms

catch·i·ness, noun

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Once, headlines were meant to be clever or catchy or evocative.

That's where the catchy phrase in the ceremony comes from.

The campaign has been peaceful and festive so far, with plenty of banners and posters and catchy sloganeering.

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Once, headlines were meant to be clever or catchy or evocative.

That's where the catchy phrase in the ceremony comes from.

The campaign has been peaceful and festive so far, with plenty of banners and posters and catchy sloganeering.

The unique story-telling and catchy beats caught our attention and set the stage for our film.

True, it's more of a social commentary than a scientific one, but it is catchy.

Artichoke does a good job of creating catchy tunes that aren't too watered down with childish nonsense.

The catchy strategy of public health campaigns listing the myths and facts of health risks may actually backfire.

Perhaps the recent cultural fascination with catchy dates corresponds to our modern use of computerized notation.

The music is heart-thumping and as catchy as any latest pop song.

It's indicative of the media's mangling of science in order to get a catchy pullquote.

New poetry books offer catchy rhythms, curious creatures and more.

Radio stations blare an impressive repertoire of catchy revolutionary tunes.

In fact, there's even a catchy name for using plastic in farming: plasticulture.

Late-comers have to buy their way in when looking for a catchy name for a new online venture.

While the technology has a catchy name, other tissue engineering techniques have had greater success creating organ tissue.

So much so that having a catchy nickname can go a long way toward being.

Other communist-era products have reinvented themselves with shiny labels and catchy slogans.

And its obscenely catchy songs take up permanent residence in the back of your mind.

The modern songs were simplified again, returning to shorter melody lines now punctuated by catchy instrumental refrains:.

Catchy as it is, the phrase has a certain dumbness built into it.

I've always been really into catchy melody, because it's the hardest thing to do.

Revelino was a consummate band, playing driving, catchy psychedelia-tinged power-pop.

Too bad-jingle mail was such a catchy name for an economic concept.

In that one there's catchy music and you have four tendrils instead of two.

Jones came up with a catchy rubric for self-understanding based on the elements of earth, water, wind and fire.

Dean points out--Americans are conditioned to make complex decisions based on little more than catchy slogans.

The game concepts are mixed together into a hypnotically catchy single.

Self-help books teem with catchy maxims to help you feel.

It reminds me of sound bytes on cable news networks that are catchy but hold absolutely no substance.

Listening to the pretty, catchy tunes makes doing laps around the small levels more bearable.

And in an age when any mistake is possible grist for a public flogging, this was a catchy gotcha.

Two musicians-turned-fans even managed to transform the series' complicated plotlines into catchy pop songs.

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World English Dictionary

catchy (ˈkætʃɪ)

—*adj* , catchier, catchiest
1.	(of a tune, etc) pleasant and easily remembered or imitated
2.	tricky or deceptive: a catchy question
3.	irregular: a catchy breeze

'catchiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

catchy

1831, from catch (v.). Considered colloquial at first.

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