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breathless

adjective

1 breathless

Not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty:
— Breathless at thought of what I had done.
— Breathless from running.
— Followed the match with breathless interest.

synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic.

Roget 860: fearing etc. v.; frightened etc. v.; in fear, in a fright etc. n.; haunted with the fear of etc. n.; afeard.    ... show more

Roget 865: desirous; desiring etc. v.; inclined etc. (willing) 602; partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, ... show more

Roget 821: feeling etc. v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling etc. n.. warm, ... show more

Roget 688: fatigued, tired etc. v.; weary etc. 841; drowsy etc. 683; drooping etc. v.; ... show more

Roget 684: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.    ... show more

Roget 581: aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, ... show more

Roget 457: attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to; observing etc. v.; alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, ... show more

Roget 870: surprised etc. v.; aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, ... show more

2 breathless

Tending to cause suspension of regular breathing:
— A breathless flight.

synonym: breathtaking.

3 breathless

Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse.

synonyms: inanimate, pulseless.


Moby thesaurus: ablaze, abrupt, afire, agape, aghast, agog, airless, alacritous, all agog, amazed, anaudic, animated, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, aphasic, aphonic, ardent, asleep, asleep in Jesus ... show more.

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