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breathing

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of breathing

having or showing life

realized that he didnʼt need a comic-book superhero, since he had a real, breathing hero in his father

Synonyms of breathing

alive, animate, live, living, quick

Words Related to breathing

active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious

current, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, surviving

Near Antonyms of breathing

dying, fading, moribund

reposing, resting

ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, zombielike

absent, extinct, fallen, finished, gone, lapsed, lost, nonexistent, perished, terminated, vanished, wiped out

Antonyms of breathing

asleep, breathless, cold, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, expired, inanimate, lifeless, nonliving

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