Fetching

/ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Attractive; pleasant to regard..

Definitions by Sense

1. Attractive; pleasant to regard.
2. present participle and gerund of fetch
3. The act by which something is fetched.

Example Sentences

Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

“The men in this town have a serious case of pussy affluenza,” says Amy Watanabe, 28, the fetching, tattooed owner of Sake Bar Satsko, a lively izakaya in New York’s East Village.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• more fetching
• most fetching
• fetchings

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