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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
dyspneic is an adjective meaning "not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dyspneic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.