Fetching
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The act by which something is fetched.
"These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night."
- 1 present participle and gerund of fetch form-of, gerund, participle, present
"She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man."
- 1 Attractive; pleasant to regard.
"Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested."
- 1 very attractive; capturing interest wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"You don't look as fetching as you think."
Etymology
From fetch + -ing.
From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing.
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