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EYE-CATCHING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eye-catching mean?
• EYE-CATCHING (adjective)
The adjective EYE-CATCHING has 1 sense:
1. seizing the attention
Familiarity information: EYE-CATCHING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seizing the attention
Synonyms:
attention-getting; eye-catching
Context example:
eye-catching posters
Similar:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
Context examples
Within Pluto’s informally named Vega Terra region is a field of eye-catching craters that looks like a cluster of bright halos scattered across a dark landscape.
(Pluto’s ‘Halo’ Craters, NASA)
Two features of the object’s spectra were particularly eye-catching and corresponded to the presence of ferric oxides and phyllosilicates.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
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