arrestive

1. Tending to arrest.Examples: "As fast they pressed with laboring breath, Clinched teeth and knitted frown, The sharp, arrestive cry rang out,— “The color-bearer’s down!”"; "I noted a curious streak of yellow in the silvered eyebrows, as if youth clung on, so to speak, by a single hair, and underneath these arrestive eyebrows green pupils alternately glowed and smouldered."; "First, the reader notices in an O. Henry story the quiet but arrestive beginning."Synonyms: arresting, captivating, conspicuous, remarkable, strikingdated