breathless

  • (a) 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
    dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic,
  • (s) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
    • a breathless flight
    • breathtaking adventure
    breathtaking,
  • (s) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
    • an inanimate body
    • pulseless and dead
    pulseless, inanimate,

Synonyms

dyspneal dyspneic dyspnoeal dyspnoeic breathtaking pulseless inanimate

Antonyms

breathing eupneic eupnoeic

See also

unventilated

Words of close approximity

breathlessly breathlessness