catching as a noun: - 1
- 2
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as an adjective: - 1
catching
noun
1 catching
baseball Playing the position of catcher on a baseball team.
2 catching
The act of detecting something; catching sight of something.
synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying.
Dutch: speurwerk, ontdekking, opsporing, waarneming
3 catching
Becoming infected:
— Catching cold is sometimes unavoidable.
synonym: contracting.
adjective
1 catching
of disease Capable of being transmitted by infection.
synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable.
Roget 657:
insalubrious;
unhealthy,
unwholesome;
noxious,
noisome;
morbific†,
morbiferous†;
mephitic,
septic,
azotic†,
deleterious;
pestilent,
pestiferous,
pestilential;
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed;
poisonous,
toxic,
toxiferous†,
teratogenic;
narcotic.
contagious,
infectious,
catching,
taking,
epidemic,
zymotic†;
epizootic.
innutritious†,
indigestible,
ungenial;
uncongenial
etc.
(disagreeing)
24.
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361.
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