suffocatingly

Examples

• All

• The train yard smelled suffocatingly of coal, creosote, and smoke.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The afternoon had turned suffocatingly hot.

  Fiction book (1993)

• My bedroom is suffocatingly hot.

  The Devils (1971)

• The air was heavy and suffocatingly hot.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Beirut has been suffocatingly hot through October.

  Academic text (2010)

• They had traveled nearly five blocks in this dim, suffocatingly silent world when they came to the first burned house.

  Fiction book (1990)

• They're boring, they're suffocatingly restrictive, and they create endless mountains of paperwork for all involved.

  Blog text (32)

• Through suffocatingly thick cigarette smoke, I dimly saw (the candle, too, was about to go out) that Illimar was undressing, though not completely.

  Fiction book (1993)

• City born and bred, I’d always wanted to work the land, grow all the food set on my table, and become as self-sufficient as possible in a suffocatingly complex world.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I was used to my six-bedroom Bryn Mawr house on its grassy two-acre lot, and to my eyes, this place seemed suffocatingly small, like all residences in Artemis-Gamma.

  Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

O

oppressively

vssuffocatingly

1 6.6

In a way that feels heavy and makes you uncomfortable

refers specifically to breathing difficulty or restriction rather than general emotional burden

S

stiflingly

vssuffocatingly

1 7.5

In a way that makes you find it hard to breathe and feel free because of heat or strict rules

adds a sense of being trapped and loss of freedom rather than only physical discomfort

S

smotheringly

vssuffocatingly

8.3

In a way that feels too tight and makes breathing hard

focuses more on physical breathing difficulty or lack of freedom than emotional suppression

C

chokingly

vssuffocatingly

7.9

In a way that makes breathing or speaking hard

describes a longer loss of freedom or heat discomfort rather than sudden blockage

S

swelteringly

vssuffocatingly

7.7

To do something in a very hot and uncomfortable way

includes difficulty breathing or feeling trapped not only high temperature discomfort

Antonyms

F

freely

287 1.0

In a way that has no rules or limits

C

comfortably

45 2.0

In a way that makes your body feel relaxed and at ease

How Stifling

smotheringly

8.3

suffocatingly

1 7.3

stiflingly

1 7.5

oppressively

1 6.6

Surface Forms

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Etymology