Synonyms for catching
- noun
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
Other
capture, apprehension, contracting, arrest, seizure, contraction
Adjective
1. Contagious — infectious, contagious
contagious, communicable, infectious, transmissible, pestilential, transmittable, pestiferous, contractable
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The action of the verb catch.
- adj. 1
Infectious, contagious.
a pessimism that seemed to be catching
Forms
- Plural
- catchings → spottings, spyings, detections, espials…
Example sentences
- spying Spying between friends is absolutely unacceptable.
- spotting Are you good at spotting irregularities?
- contracting Yanni lent Skura a hand with her contracting business.
By length
- 6 letters
- taking2, arrest2, spying2, espial
- 7 letters
- capture2, seizure2
- 8 letters
- spotting2
- 9 letters
- detection3
- 10 letters
- infectious3, contagious3
- 11 letters
- contracting3, contraction3, pestiferous
- 12 letters
- apprehension4, communicable5, pestilential, contractable
- 13 letters
- transmissible, transmittable4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (taking2 = 2 syllables).