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Antonyms for catch oncatch on
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catch onverb
Antonyms:
go the way of the dinosaurscatch onverb
He didn't have to explain; I caught on right away.
Antonyms:
go the way of the dinosaurscatch onverb
It's a crummy idea, and I certainly hope it does not catch on.
Antonyms:
go the way of the dinosaurs
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Princeton's WordNet
catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get itverb
understand, usually after some initial difficulty
"She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
Synonyms:
whirl around, topple, tip, break down, get onto, fasten on, latch on, collapse, cotton on, whirl, seize on, crumble, hook on, tumble, twig, take up, get it, get wise, crumplecatch onverb
become popular
"This fashion caught on in Paris"
Synonyms:
twig, tumble, get onto, get it, cotton on, get wise, latch on
How to use catch on in a sentence?
Whether you’re a nonprofit organization with no marketing budget or a small business owner with a great new service, knowing how to generate word-of-mouth will help you make your product, service or idea succeed, and even if you don’t have anything you want to catch on, understanding how word of mouth works will help you better navigate the world around you.
We also finally did away with the individual mandate tax that was established under that wonderful bill called ObamaCare – now, if you didn’t catch on, I was being very sarcastic, that was the stupidest, dumbass bill that I’ve ever seen.
I think this thing ... will catch on like wildfire.
I thought it would be a hit but I didn’t anticipate that it would take so long to catch on, or that it would become this phenomenon, or that it would be so ignored by the industry. That really floored me, because I knew how good we were; we all did.
I noticed cigarette burn holes in my cabana's roof, I assumed they had been flicked from above balconies, and I had that exact thought, that these things could catch on fire.
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