Engaging vs Fetching - What's the difference?
engaging | fetching |
That engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour.
Attractive; pleasant to regard.
* 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
*, chapter=6
, title= The act by which something is fetched.
* 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
As adjectives the difference between engaging and fetching
is that engaging is that engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling while fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard.As verbs the difference between engaging and fetching
is that engaging is present participle of lang=en while fetching is present participle of lang=en.As a noun fetching is
the act by which something is fetched.engaging
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I found the first of the Harry Potter books a very engaging read.
- Beauty, of course, and a bright, engaging personality — or at least the ability to fake one — are prerequisites for entering the Miss World competition.
Derived terms
* engagingness * unengagingSynonyms
* (that engages the attention) absorbing, compelling, engrossing, enthralling, interesting * (charming) appealing, attractive, sweetAntonyms
* (that engages the attention) boring, dull, unengaging, uninteresting * (charming) boorish, rude, uncivil, uncivilisedVerb
(head)fetching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Verb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
Noun
(en noun)- These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.