unbreathable
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈbrɛθəbl/
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irrespirable
- The air in the zone is unbreathable, highly contaminated.
- unbreathable air
- unbreathable atmosphere
- becomes unbreathable
Examples
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Worse, air in California's sparsely populated Central Valley would be unbreathable on all but the clearest days.
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A succession of forest fires left the air unbreathable.
Fiction book (1998) -
The air, soon will be unbreathable".
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Cities are unbreathable, the countryside's a poisonous mess.
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We have made air unbreathable (took more than one evil genius to do this!), toxified our living soil.
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Millennia of neglect has rendered - our atmosphere unbreathable.
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No matter how the end will come, environmental disaster, pandemic disease, unbreathable air, impotable water, not enough food, nuclear winter, some combination of them all, relatively soon the Earth will indeed purge itself of human life and God knows how many other species.
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After the factory explosion, the air became unbreathable due to toxic fumes.
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During the heatwave, the smog made the air unbreathable for many residents.
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Following the wildfire, the unbreathable smoke spread across the valley, forcing evacuations.
Synonyms
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A place with no air where you cannot breathe
Too large or not able to enter the lungs when breathed in
Hot, heavy air that makes it hard to breathe
Making it very hard to breathe because there is not enough air
Antonyms
How Breathable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unbreathable = breathable (transparent) = un + breathe + able
Direct negation of a clear adjectival base describing suitability for breathing.
Etymology
Unbreathable is made from un- ('not'), breathe ('to breathe') and -able ('able'). Think of smoke or fumes you cannot breathe safely, so unbreathable means 'not suitable or safe for breathing'.