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arrestingadjective holding the attention or provoking interestan arresting film about tribal traditions in Africa absorbing, consuming, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, immersing, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting breathtaking, electric, electrifying, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, inspiring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrillingprovocative, tantalizingemphatic, showy, splashy, strikingalluring, attractive, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, spellbindinghypnotizing, mesmerizingcurious, odd, unusual, weirdamazing, astonishing, astounding, eventful, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous(or marvellous), surprising, wonderful, wondrousamusing, entertaining boring, drab, dry, dull, heavy, monotonous, tedious, uninteresting operose, tiresome, tiring, wearisome, wearyingsterile, unexcitingdreary, humdrum, pedantic, pedestriandemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting likely to attract attentionat seven feet tall, he's an arresting figure in any crowd bodacious, bold, brilliant, catchy, commanding, conspicuous, dramatic, emphatic, eye-catching, flamboyant, grabby, kenspeckle(chiefly Scottish), marked, noisy, noticeable, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, showy, splashy, striking detectable, discernible(also discernable), observable, perceptible, recognizable, visibleoutstanding, salientdistinguished, eminent, impressive, notable, noteworthyhighlighted, spotlightedflagrant, glaring, howling, screamingflashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, jazzy, loud, meretricious, swank(or swanky), tawdryhighfalutin(also hifalutin), ostentatious, pretentiousextravagant, fancy, florid, glittery, spectacularopulent, ornate, overdone, overwroughtabsorbing, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, interesting, riveting inconspicuous, unemphatic, unflamboyant, unnoticeable, unobtrusive, unremarkable, unshowy subtleconcealed, hidden, shroudeddim, faint, obscureinsignificant, undistinguished, unimportantmodest, unaffected, unassuming, unpretentiousconservative, plain, quiet, simple, understatedmuted, restrained, subdued, subtle, toned-down, unflashy arrestingverbpresent participle of arrestto take or keep under one's control by authority of lawthe inept robber was promptly arrested by the off-duty policeman he had tried to hold up apprehending, busting(slang), collaring, nabbing, nailing, nicking(British slang), picking up, pinching, pulling in, restraining, running in, seizing bagging, capturing, catching, getting, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trappingcommitting, confining, detaining, holding, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, jugging, locking (up)binding, enchaining, fettering, handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling)rearrestingremanding discharging emancipating, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, releasing, springingunbinding, unchaining to bring (something) to a standstillcryogenics is based on the idea that extreme cold can almost arrest molecular motion bringing up, catching, checking, drawing up, fetching up, halting, holding up, pulling up, stalling, staying, stilling, stopping baffling, balking, blockading, blocking, bottlenecking, clogging, damming, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, obstructing, snagging, stemmingconcluding, cutting off, ending, terminatingcalling, discontinuing, suspendingchoking off, reining (in), repressing, squashing, squelching, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning back carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping (on), keeping up, persisting, running onadvancing, faring, going along, marching, moving, proceeding, progressing, wendingactuating, budging, driving, goading, impelling, propelling, pushing, spurring, stirring to hold the attention of as if by a spellthe sight of the daredevil walking a tightrope between high-rises arrested area pedestrians and motorists alike bedazzling, catching up, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, hypnotizing, mesmerizing, spellbinding enrapturing, entrancing, thrillingbeguiling, bewitching, charmingabsorbing, engaging, engrossing, involving in 1792 |