Fetching

Quick meaning: Fetching is an adjective meaning Attractive; pleasant to regard.

Meaning

Attractive; pleasant to regard.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of fetch
2. 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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• fetchings

Synonyms for fetching

Depending on context, synonyms include alluring, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, bewitching.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attractive, taking, winning, getting, seeking, searching.

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