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breathlike

breathlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of breath.

Adjective

breathlike (comparative more breathlike, superlative most breathlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of breath.
    • I expected the air to be warm, breathlike, but it was slightly chilled, almost refrigerated, and it smelled of dust and old wool.2010, Hester Kaplan, The Edge of Marriage

Forms of breathlike

comparativemore breathlike
superlativemost breathlike

Origin of breathlike

From breath + -like.

Questions about breathlike

What does breathlike mean?
Breathlike means resembling or characteristic of breath.
What part of speech is breathlike?
Breathlike is an adjective.

Words near breathlike in the dictionary

  1. Breathitt County
  2. breathless
  3. breathlessly
  4. breathlessness
  5. breathlessnesses
  6. breathlike
  7. breathly
  8. breathogram
  9. breathograms
  10. breathomic
  11. breathomics

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