windedly
- adverb
- /ˈwɪndɪdli/
- She answered the phone windedly, still catching her breath from her jog.
Examples
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He spoke windedly after running up the stairs to deliver the message.
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The player collapsed windedly on the field after the intense match.
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She spoke windedly after running up the stairs.
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He arrived windedly, trying to catch his breath.
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He spoke windedly after running up the stairs to deliver the message.
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She answered the phone windedly, still catching her breath from her jog.
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The player collapsed windedly on the field after the intense match.
Synonyms
In a way that shows you have little air because you feel excited, scared, or very tired
In a soft, quiet voice that sounds like you are breathing
With a short high sound when someone breathes hard
With short, quick breaths after hard exercise
In a way that shows quick, heavy breathing from effort or excitement
In a way that shows breathing hard from effort or excitement
Someone breathes in a noisy, heavy way like loud snoring
With short, noisy breaths because it is hard to breathe
Antonyms
How Breathless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Windedly comes from the common word wind, which can mean 'breath' or 'air'—when you 'lose your wind' you are out of breath. So windedly means 'in a breathless or gasping way'.