breath-catching
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.03 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Inspiring awe or deep admiration; impressive.
adj
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breath, catching.
Example Sentences
- "The theory was breath-catching, but quickly fell apart when the accountant could give no account of what Sibyl might have done with Theresa's body."
- "Donal Henahan reported that her performance of it was “breath-catching in its vocal warmth and emotional power.”"
- "For here was a vista that was breath-catching and inspiring, a wholly new thing come into the world."
- "To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet."
- "I asked whether he would mind if I looked through them, and after a few minutes I found the map: it was a breath-catching moment for, as I unfolded it, I saw that it must show the deployment of a whole searchlight regiment covering the entire southern half of Belgium."
- "He was moving towards her with a purposefully predatory stride, stopping only when he was breath-catching inches away from her."
Inflected Forms
more breath-catching (comparative)
most breath-catching (superlative)