Synonyms of catchword

catchword

noun

as in slogan

a word or phrase that is used repeatedly and conveniently to represent or characterize a person, group, idea, or point of view

a catchword that appeared in every campaign ad

Related Words

• slogan
• motto
• banner
• cliché
• watchword
• catchphrase
• idiom
• shibboleth
• maxim
• tagline
• expression
• cry
• battle cry
• war cry

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of catchword

The catchwords seem too simple, too reductive, to speak to the nature of his expansive, unsummarizable theorizing. — Literary Hub, 23 May 2025

And there will be more games like that this season, until consistency and cohesion become reality and not just catchwords. — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023

Reliability has become the catchword for Texas’ electric industry since February 2021. — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022

Said to be a mashup of the words snowy and neckdown, the catchphrase or catchword was reportedly popularized via Twitter in 2014. — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022

Narcissism has become a catchword to describe pretty much anyone who's vain, self-obsessed, and craves the spotlight. — Health.com, 20 Apr. 2021

Fueled by international competition and the reality of robust economic expansion in many nations, growth had quickly become the catchword of the day in economics departments and government bureaucracies. — Christopher F. Jones, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2019

Now, in the era of Deng Xiaoping with reform the catchword, politics seemed muddled and mixed up in a new way, and Li was acquiring a name as a conservative. — The Economist, 25 July 2019