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单词 fetching
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fetching

adjective

fetch·​ing ˈfe-chiŋ How to pronounce fetching (audio)
: attractive, appealing
a fetching smile
… actress Melanie Griffith, looking very fetching in a light-green silk dress and double diamond stud earrings. Robert Goldberg
If you tune your clock-radio to station 1540 in Charlotte, North Carolina, you wake up with a fetching female voice at your ear. Arline Brecher
There is something sweet and fetching about the episode. Newgate Callendar
From Ukrainian borscht to Vietnamese crab omelette, there is much to choose from, and all in all it's a fetching collection … Publishers Weekly
fetchingly
ˈfe-chiŋ-lē How to pronounce fetching (audio)
adverb
fetchingly dressed
Tasting plates generally consist of four to six bites of food, often lined up fetchingly on long, narrow white plates that curl at the edges. Harvey Steiman

Synonyms

  • alluring
  • appealing
  • attractive
  • bewitching
  • captivating
  • charismatic
  • charming
  • elfin
  • enchanting
  • engaging
  • entrancing
  • fascinating
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • luring
  • magnetic
  • seductive
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Example Sentences

You look very fetching in that outfit. the woman's fetching smile has long made the painting a favorite with visitors to the museum
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Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

fetching

adjective

fetch·​ing ˈfe-chiŋ How to pronounce fetching (audio)
: very attractive

fetching 1 of 2

adjective

1
as in appealing
having an often mysterious or magical power to attract the woman's fetching smile has long made the painting a favorite with visitors to the museum

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • appealing
  • attractive
  • charming
  • enchanting
  • charismatic
  • seductive
  • luring
  • bewitching
  • alluring
  • captivating
  • entrancing
  • tempting
  • fascinating
  • engaging
  • interesting
  • absorbing
  • magnetic
  • elfin
  • glamorous
  • enticing
  • glamourous
  • exciting
  • gripping
  • arresting
  • intriguing
  • hypnotizing
  • enthralling
  • haunting
  • tantalizing
  • mesmerizing
  • engrossing
  • riveting
  • spellbinding
  • hypnotic
  • pleasing
  • winning
  • delightful
  • titillating
  • beckoning
  • pleasant
  • galvanic
  • inviting
  • darling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • revolting
  • repulsive
  • wearisome
  • tiresome
  • tedious
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • irksome
  • boring
  • repelling
  • unalluring
  • repellant
  • shocking
  • hideous
  • horrid
  • nauseating
  • appalling
  • obnoxious
  • sickening
  • awful
  • loathsome
  • distasteful
  • flat
  • abominable
  • invidious
  • odious
  • offensive
  • abhorrent
  • drab
  • horrible
  • horrendous
  • noisome
  • dull
  • leaden
  • monotonous
  • pedestrian
  • humdrum
  • dreary
  • ponderous
  • jading
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2
as in attractive
very pleasing to look at a most fetching outfit in which to go skiing

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • attractive
  • handsome
  • beautiful
  • pretty
  • lovely
  • cute
  • gorgeous
  • taking
  • charming
  • good
  • stunning
  • ravishing
  • comely
  • elegant
  • likely
  • beauteous
  • delightful
  • seemly
  • sightly
  • sexy
  • knockout
  • appealing
  • hot
  • goodly
  • glorious
  • perfect
  • magnificent
  • flawless
  • aesthetic
  • good-looking
  • bonny
  • fascinating
  • engaging
  • fair
  • desirable
  • prepossessing
  • alluring
  • superb
  • well-favored
  • exquisite
  • drop-dead
  • sublime
  • lovesome
  • resplendent
  • delicate
  • pleasant
  • splendid
  • glamorous
  • bonnie
  • dainty
  • cunning
  • seductive
  • arresting
  • esthetical
  • striking
  • statuesque
  • presentable
  • esthetic
  • radiant
  • aesthetical
  • slick
  • luscious
  • glamourous
  • foxy
  • snazzy
  • toothsome
  • showy
  • flashy
  • glossy
  • pulchritudinous
  • splashy
  • nubile
  • dishy
  • hunky
  • flamboyant
  • personable
  • dollish
  • photogenic
  • eye-catching
  • Junoesque
  • prettyish
  • studly
  • showstopping
  • zingy
  • chocolate-box
  • telegenic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • plain
  • unattractive
  • ugly
  • hideous
  • revolting
  • grotesque
  • homely
  • unsightly
  • disagreeable
  • shocking
  • uncomely
  • unlovely
  • unpleasing
  • nauseating
  • repulsive
  • unhandsome
  • bad
  • ghastly
  • objectionable
  • sickening
  • terrible
  • dreadful
  • loathsome
  • unaesthetic
  • unappealing
  • disgusting
  • repellent
  • repellant
  • repugnant
  • abominable
  • abhorrent
  • vile
  • offensive
  • unpleasant
  • nasty
  • unprepossessing
  • horrible
  • unbeautiful
  • unappetizing
  • foul
  • frightful
  • ill-favored
  • unpretty
  • unimposing
  • unbecoming
  • uncute
  • unshapely
  • frumpy
  • frumpish
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fetching

2 of 2

verb

present participle of fetch
as in costing
to have a price of those old toys that we tossed away are now fetching big bucks as antiques

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • costing
  • bringing
  • running
  • demanding
  • commanding
  • asking
  • selling (for)
  • totaling
  • exacting
  • going (for)
  • totalling
  • coming (to)
  • amounting (to)
  • listing (for)
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