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breathless

adjective/ˈbreθləs/

A2CEFR level
8/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

Having difficulty breathing or feeling short of breath.

Are you breathless just walking around the house, or only when you exert yourself?

Similar: winded

Topic: Patient-facing communication in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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