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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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