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Dear WW: I am assuming that you mean "arresting = catching and holding one's interest".
A word very popular fifty years ago, which I have neither heard or seen for a long time
might do:
banal ........ pronounced either "BAY nal" or as I prefer " ba Nahl"
adj.
5Fr < OFr, designating objects (such as ovens or mills) belonging to feudal serfs (hence common, ordinary) < ban, decree, legal control: see BAN16 dull or stale as
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