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Breathless vs Pantingly - What's the difference?

breathless | pantingly |

As an adjective breathless

is having difficulty breathing; gasping.

As an adverb pantingly is

in a panting way; eagerly, breathlessly.

breathless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
  • That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
  • Not breathing; apparently dead.
  • Having no wind; still, calm or airless.

    • Derived terms

    * breathlessly * breathlessness

    pantingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a panting way; eagerly, breathlessly.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 19, author=Janet Maslin, title=Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil. }}