breathing room

1. 1.

   sufficient room for easy breathing or movement

   “moved to the country to find breathing room”

   Synonymsbreathing space

   Broaderroom

Questions about breathing room

What does breathing room mean?

breathing room means "sufficient room for easy breathing or movement".

What is another word for breathing room?

Close synonyms include breathing space. 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.

Is breathing room a common word?

breathing room is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.