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^†.    afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt.    aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics.    inspiring fear etc. v.; alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous etc. (danger) 665; portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting etc. (painful) 830; Gorgonian.    ... show more

Roget 865: desirous; desiring etc. v.; inclined etc. (willing) 602; partial to; fain, wishful, optative^†; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous.    craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish^†, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient^†, lickerish^†, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy^†; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.    [excessively desirous] greedy etc. 817.1. unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked; unsaturated.    eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient etc. (impetuous) 825; bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.    aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.    desirable; desired etc. v.; in demand; pleasing etc. (giving pleasure) 829; appetizing, appetible^†; tantalizing.    ... show more

Roget 821: feeling etc. v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling etc. n.. warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.    impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.    earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.    pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous etc. (excitable) 825.    impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with etc. 82; devoured by; wrought up etc. (excited) 824; struck all of a heap; rapt; in a quiver etc. n.; enraptured etc. 829.    ... show more

Roget 688: fatigued, tired etc. v.; weary etc. 841; drowsy etc. 683; drooping etc. v.; haggard; toilworn^†, wayworn:, footsore, surbated^†, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed [U.S.]; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed^†, unrestored.    worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.    breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind; blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose^†; broken winded, short-winded; dyspnaeal^†, dyspnaeic^†.    ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat [Fr.].    fatiguing etc. v.; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.    ... show more

Roget 684: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.    in haste, in a hurry etc. n.; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.    ... show more

Roget 581: aphonous^†, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish^†, mute as a mackerel; silent etc. (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.    croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.    ... show more

Roget 457: attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to; observing etc. v.; alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, occupied with, engaged in; engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt, transfixed, riveted, mesmerized, hypnotized; glued to (the TV, the window, a book); breathless; preoccupied etc. (inattentive) 458; watchful etc. (careful) 459; breathless, undistracted, upon the stretch; on the watch etc. (expectant) 507.    steadfast.    [compelling attention] interesting, engrossing, mesmerizing, riveting.    ... show more

Roget 870: surprised etc. v.; aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder.    wonderful, wondrous; surprising etc. v.; unexpected etc. 508; unheard of; mysterious etc. (inexplicable) 519; miraculous.    indescribable, inexpressible, inaffable^†; unutterable, unspeakable.    monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable^†, unimaginable; strange etc. (uncommon) 83; passing strange.    striking etc. v.; overwhelming; wonder-working.    ... show more

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

synonym: breathtaking.

Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse.

synonyms: inanimate, pulseless.