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catchy

adjectifattesté dans les dialogues

  • //ˈkæt͡ʃi//
  • //ˈkɛt͡ʃi//

Instantly appealing and memorable.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Instantly appealing and memorable.

    Eric wrote a catchy tune to play on his acoustic guitar while Alyssa plays the drums.

    This hook is so catchy that I can't stop listening to it!

    Because in today's 2,000mph technological freefall, he who coins the catchiest buzzword generally wins the debate by default.

    The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

  2. 2

    vieilliTending to catch or ensnare; entangling.

    a catchy question

  3. 3

    vieilliConsisting of, or occurring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable.

    a catchy wind

    Encyc. of Sport It [the fox's scent] is […] flighty or catchy, if variable.

  4. 4

    Contagious; catching.

    The catchy cold which has been transmitted to you directly or indirectly might have been avoided had you been in better physical condition.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Latin captus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -io Vulgar Latin *captiāre Old French chacierbor. Anglo-Norman cachierbor. Middle English cacchen English catch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English catchy From catch + -y.

Formes

comparatif
catchier
superlatif
catchiest
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).