catchy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: catch=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

catchy, a. 

•  Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable; as, a catchy wind.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  "It [the fox's scent] is . . . flighty or catchy, if variable."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catchy, adj. (catchier, catchiest)
1 (of a tune) easy to remember; attractive.
2 that snares or entraps; deceptive.
3 (of the wind etc.) fitful, spasmodic.

Derivative

catchily adv. catchiness n.

Etymology

CATCH + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

catchy

achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, beguiling, broken, canorous, cantabile, capricious, careening, choppy, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, dubious, dulcet, eccentric, erratic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fallacious, false, fine-toned, fishy, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, guttering, hallucinatory, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, honeyed, illusive, illusory, immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, lurching, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, misleading, music-flowing, music-like, musical, nonuniform, on-again-off-again, patchy, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, questionable, rambling, rich, rough, scrappy, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, snatchy, songful, songlike, sonorous, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, trickish, tricksy, tricky, tunable, tuneful, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly