Antonyms for catching
ˈkætʃ ɪŋcatch·ing

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1. catchingnoun

   (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

   Synonyms:
   spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detection

2. detection, catching, espial, spying, spottingnoun

   the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

   Synonyms:
   detective work, spying, staining, sleuthing, sensing, detecting, detection, signal detection, espial, maculation, undercover work, spotting, contracting

3. catching, contractingadjective

   becoming infected

   "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

   Synonyms:
   spying, espial, spotting, contracting, detection

4. catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

   Synonyms:
   inherited, genetic, communicable, contagious, transmittable, ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

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1. catchingadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncontagious, incommunicable

   Synonyms:
   contagious, infectious, communicable, pestilential

2. catchingnoun

   Synonyms:
   seizure, apprehension, arrest

How to use catching in a sentence?

1. Chip Roy:

   They were more concerned with catching their flights for Christmas, coming to me and saying, ‘We can't be here over Christmas.' Well, why the hell not?

2. Claude Garbo:

   I prefer to be cautious and protect my father rather than give him a vaccine about which we still know little, he risks catching the virus but it would be like any other disease.

3. Herawati Sudoyo:

   Systematic surveillance needs to be done to determine the prevalence of Zika and at the moment we might be underestimating the number of cases, the scientific community may have been caught by surprise by this outbreak. We are catching up on learning about this.

4. Chris Cabrera:

   We have a lot of agents quarantined right now, which adds to our problem, on top of agents who are sick with COVID, so we’re concerned about catching it ourselves, we’re concerned about our families and coworkers and it just seems everyone's turning a blind eye to it when we have a real situation down here.

5. Christopher Wilson:

   We're still thinking about migration with a vision that's maybe 20 years old at this point. We're not -- as the public or even as policymakers -- catching up fully, the ground has shifted beneath our feet, and we're still operating as if it's the old world.

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