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breathly

breathly adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a breath or breathing.

Adjective

breathly (comparative breathlier or more breathly, superlative breathliest or most breathly)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a breath or breathing.
    • [...] shouting at the sleeping ants who burrowed within the dead wood funguses of painful memories that were crystalline keys found within the caverns within rocks, carved by strong winds of breathly force made from the pursed lips of treebark.2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey

Forms of breathly

comparativebreathlier
comparativemore breathly
superlativebreathliest
superlativemost breathly

Origin of breathly

From breath + -ly.

Questions about breathly

What does breathly mean?
Breathly means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a breath or breathing.
What part of speech is breathly?
Breathly is an adjective.

Words near breathly in the dictionary

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

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