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breathless


 
  Grep  of  noun  breathless 
  breathlessness 
 
  Overview  of  adj  breathless 
 
  The  adj  breathless  has  3  senses  (first  2  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (5)  breathless,  dyspneic,  dyspnoeic,  dyspneal,  dyspnoeal  --  (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") 
  2.  (1)  breathless,  breathtaking  --  (tending  to  cause  suspension  of  regular  breathing;  "a  breathless  flight";  "breathtaking  adventure") 
  3.  breathless,  inanimate,  pulseless  --  (appearing  dead;  not  breathing  or  having  no  perceptible  pulse;  "an  inanimate  body";  "pulseless  and  dead") 
 
  Antonyms  of  adj  breathless 
 
  3  senses  of  breathless 
 
  Sense  1 
  breathless  (vs.  breathing),  dyspneic,  dyspnoeic,  dyspneal,  dyspnoeal 
 
  breathing  (vs.  breathless),  eupneic,  eupnoeic 
  =>  breathed 
  =>  exhaling 
  =>  huffing,  puffing,  puffy 
  =>  inhaling 
  =>  snoring 
  =>  snorting 
 
  Sense  2 
  breathless,  breathtaking 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  exciting)  ->  unexciting 
 
  Sense  3 
  breathless,  inanimate,  pulseless 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  dead)  ->  alive 
 
  Similarity  of  adj  breathless 
 
  3  senses  of  breathless 
 
  Sense  1 
  breathless  (vs.  breathing),  dyspneic,  dyspnoeic,  dyspneal,  dyspnoeal 
  =>  asphyxiating 
  =>  choking,  smothering,  suffocating,  suffocative 
  =>  blown,  gasping,  out  of  breath(prenominal),  panting,  pursy,  short-winded,  winded 
  Also  See->  unventilated#1 
 
  Sense  2 
  breathless,  breathtaking 
  =>  exciting  (vs.  unexciting) 
 
  Sense  3 
  breathless,  inanimate,  pulseless 
  =>  dead  (vs.  alive) 
 
  Attributes  of  adj  breathless 
 
 
  Familiarity  of  adj  breathless 
 
  breathless  used  as  an  adjective  is  uncommon  (polysemy  count  =  3) 
 
  Grep  of  adj  breathless 
  breathless 
 
  Overview  of  adj  breathless 
 
  The  adj  breathless  has  3  senses  (first  2  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (5)  breathless,  dyspneic,  dyspnoeic,  dyspneal,  dyspnoeal  --  (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") 
  2.  (1)  breathless,  breathtaking  --  (tending  to  cause  suspension  of  regular  breathing;  "a  breathless  flight";  "breathtaking  adventure") 
  3.  breathless,  inanimate,  pulseless  --  (appearing  dead;  not  breathing  or  having  no  perceptible  pulse;  "an  inanimate  body";  "pulseless  and  dead") 



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