"fetching" meaning in English

See fetching in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-fetching.ogg [US] Forms: more fetching [comparative], most fetching [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ Etymology: From fetch + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fetch|ing}} fetch + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj}} fetching (comparative more fetching, superlative most fetching)
  1. Attractive; pleasant to regard. Categories (topical): Appearance Synonyms: attractive Translations (Attractive; pleasant to regard): привлекателен (privlekatelen) (Bulgarian), очарователен (očarovatelen) (Bulgarian), atractiu (Catalan), attirant (French), attraktiv (German), atraente (Portuguese), привлека́тельный (privlekátelʹnyj) [masculine] (Russian), atractivo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fetching-en-adj-kwIrgA4w Disambiguation of Appearance: 86 0 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-fetching.ogg [US] Forms: fetchings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fetchynge}} Middle English fetchynge, {{m|enm|fecchynge}} fecchynge, {{m|enm|faching}} faching, {{m|enm|fettynge}} fettynge, {{suffix|en|fetch|ing}} fetch + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun}} fetching (plural fetchings)
  1. The act by which something is fetched.
    Sense id: en-fetching-en-noun-4RNk28yA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-fetching.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ Etymology: From fetch + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fetch|ing}} fetch + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} fetching
  1. present participle and gerund of fetch Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: fetch
    Sense id: en-fetching-en-verb-zU2BxUIo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 25 73 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 18 78 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 9 23 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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