breathing

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymseupneiceupnoeic

   Antonymsbreathless

   Similarsweet-breathed

Other forms of breathing

plural

breathings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about breathing

What does breathing mean?

breathing means "the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breathing?

breathing has 2 syllables: brea-thing. The stress falls on "brea". In IPA it is /ˈbɹiðɪŋ/.

What is another word for breathing?

Close synonyms include external respiration, respiration, ventilation, eupneic, eupnoeic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of breathing?

The recorded antonyms are breathless.

Is breathing a common word?

breathing is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.