Fetching vs Gorgeous - What's the difference?
fetching | gorgeous |
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
(of a person or place) very beautiful.
(rare) Very enjoyable, pleasant, tasty etc.
As adjectives the difference between fetching and gorgeous
is that fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard while gorgeous is (of a person or place) very beautiful.As a verb fetching
is .As a noun fetching
is the act by which something is fetched.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.
gorgeous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- All the contest judges agreed that Brigitt was absolutely gorgeous .
- The sunsets in Hawaii are gorgeous .
- Israeli hummus is absolutely gorgeous .