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Gripping vs Catchy - What's the difference?

gripping | catchy |

As adjectives the difference between gripping and catchy

is that gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating while catchy is instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).

As a verb gripping

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun gripping

is obsolete form of lang=en pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

gripping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
  • * 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
    • The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite

    catchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.” }}