Catchy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catchy \Catch"y\, a.
     1. Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching;
        taking; as, catchy music.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used


        fig.; as, a catchy question.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or
        snatches; changeable; as, a catchy wind.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
              It [the fox's scent] is . . . flighty or catchy, if
              variable.                             --Encyc. of
                                                    Sport.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  catchy
       adj 1: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky
              recipe to follow" [syn: {tricky}]
       2: likely to attract attention; "a catchy title for a movie"
          [syn: {attention-getting}]
       [also: {catchiest}, {catchier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "catchy":
     achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose,
     arioso, beguiling, broken, canorous, cantabile, capricious,
     careening, choppy, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory,
     desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, dubious, dulcet,
     eccentric, erratic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fallacious,
     false, fine-toned, fishy, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, golden,
     golden-tongued, golden-voiced, guttering, hallucinatory, halting,
     herky-jerky, heteroclite, honeyed, illusive, illusory,
     immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting, irregular,
     jerky, lurching, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant,
     mellow, melodic, melodious, misleading, music-flowing, music-like,
     musical, nonuniform, on-again-off-again, patchy, pleasant,
     pleasant-sounding, questionable, rambling, rich, rough, scrappy,
     silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable,
     snatchy, songful, songlike, sonorous, spasmatic, spasmic,
     spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, sweet,
     sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, trickish, tricksy, tricky, tunable,
     tuneful, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical,
     unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic,
     variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly