Meaning

That breathes; alive..

Definitions by Sense

1. That breathes; alive.
2. (obsolete) Full of odour; fragrant.
3. Full of breath, produced by the breath; breathy.
4. Focused on control of one's breathing.
5. Characteristic of a breath; breath-like.
6. Not breathless; breathing easily.
7. Relaxed and quiet.
8. That which is smelled or sensed in one breath.

Example Sentences

They for nought would from their work refrain, Nor let his speeches come unto their ear; And eke the breathful bellows blew amain Like to the northern wind, that none could hear:

the universe as body, mass as energy and energy as mass, became transformed to spirit when, through us, originating laughter found a name for everything that is and nourished into breathful form.

His approach is not limited by a narrow understanding of media but brings an innovative, expanded conception that includes technologies or techniques of our selves (such as cultures of breath) animal bodies and their breathful selves, and nature as revealed through technology.

Fresh Costmarie, and breathfull Camomill.

Men came, they partook, and they breathed of ramps. They had left their telltale and breathful mark.

He spoke a queer, jerky kind of American that I can only describe as breathful.

He smelled the rank odor of the man and heard his breathful muttering.

Against the window her lips press a row of breathful O's until, due to both a quick and vengeful draft, her candle's flame lilts, disappears.

Word Forms

• more breathful
• most breathful
• breathfuls
• breathsful

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When Should You Use Breathful?

Use breathful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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