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fetching

adjective/ˈfɛtʃɪŋ/

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
InformalRegister

Attractive and pleasing to look at, especially of clothes or appearance.

She wore a fetching straw hat tilted just over one eye.

Similar: attractive, becoming, charming

Topic: Beauty & the senses in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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