Word.ws English Dictionary

breath-catchingly

breath-catchingly adverb: shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath.

Adverb

breath-catchingly (comparative more breath-catchingly, superlative most breath-catchingly)

  1. shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath
    • Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet...2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)

Forms of breath-catchingly

comparativemore breath-catchingly
superlativemost breath-catchingly

Origin of breath-catchingly

From breath-catching + -ly.

Questions about breath-catchingly

What does breath-catchingly mean?
Breath-catchingly means shockingly; so as to make one catch one's breath.
What part of speech is breath-catchingly?
Breath-catchingly is an adverb.

Words near breath-catchingly in the dictionary

  1. breath strip
  2. breath strips
  3. breath test
  4. breath tests
  5. breath-catching
  6. breath-catchingly
  7. breath-holding
  8. breathabilities
  9. breathability
  10. breathable
  11. breathableness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: breath-catchingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “breath-catchingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/breath-catchingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.