Antonyms of adj breathless

3 senses of breathless

Sense 1
breathless (vs. breathing), 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")

breathing (vs. breathless), eupneic, eupnoeic -- (passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone")
        => sweet-breathed -- (having breath or breath as specified)

Sense 2
breathless, breathtaking -- (tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure")

INDIRECT (VIA exciting) -> unexciting -- (not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life")

Sense 3
breathless, inanimate, pulseless -- (appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead")

INDIRECT (VIA dead) -> alive, live -- (possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary")

Similarity of adj breathless

3 senses of breathless

Sense 1
breathless (vs. breathing), 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")
       => asphyxiating -- (tending to deprive of oxygen; "asphyxiating gasses")
       => smothering, suffocating, suffocative -- (causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless")
       => blown, pursy, short-winded, winded -- (breathing laboriously or convulsively)
          Also See-> unventilated#1

Sense 2
breathless, breathtaking -- (tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure")
       => exciting (vs. unexciting) -- (creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip")

Sense 3
breathless, inanimate, pulseless -- (appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead")
       => dead (vs. alive) -- (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin")

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