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Definition: Breathtaking |
BreathtakingAdjective1. Tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: BreathtakingSynonym: breathless (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's breathtaking, really (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.) Do you take the breathtaking Mary to be your beautiful, loving wife from this moment on, to love and be unbelievably kind to, to share the joys of Toyland and all your hopes and dreams with, forever and a day (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Glen MacDonough; Paul Zindel) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a breathtaking backdrop for the self-destruction of a ... Credit: NASA. |  | A breathtaking view from Avian Island. 67 46 S Latitude 68 54 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The sheer size of the Grand Canyon is breathtaking. Credit: Bette Ariel. |  | The Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument is full of breathtaking views like this one. Credit: Bette Ariel. |
 | Arizona has a surprisingly diverse terrain. Hikes through wilderness areas often leads to breathtaking views. Credit: Unknown. | ||
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Economic History | Singapore | With this latest purchase, SIA chalked up a breathtaking bill of over US$14 billion in the brief space of less than six months. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Breathtaking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Breathtaking" is used about 341 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 341 | 15,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
breathtaking | 28 |
accommodation breathtaking elegant guest view | 8 |
breathtaking cancun experience in mexico unique view | 4 |
breathtaking photo | 3 |
boy breathtaking | 3 |
breathtaking photos.com | 2 |
breathtaking destination | 2 |
breathtaking south pacific destination | 2 |
africa breathtaking destination in | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "breathtaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | befasues (astounding, startling), që të lë pa frymë. (various references) | |
Arabic | فاتن (alluring, attractive, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), ملهث, مثير (agitating, electrifying, excitant, excitative, exciting, fomenting, galvanizing, hair raising, impetus, incentive, inciting, inspiring, instigating, irritative, provocative, provoking, rousing, sensational, sore, spectacular, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, thrilling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слисващ (stunning, stupendous), възбуждащ (excitant, inflammatory, irritating, rousing, stimulant). (various references) | |
Chinese | 惊人. (various references) | |
Czech | uvádìjící v úžas. (various references) | |
Finnish | henkeäsalpaava. (various references) | |
French | stupéfiant, vous couper le souffle. (various references) | |
German | atemraubend, atemberaubend (nail biting, ravishing, spectacular, staggering, stunning). (various references) | |
Greek | που σου κόβει την ανάσα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | עוצר שימ". (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyesakkan napas (oppressive), mempesona (bewitch). (various references) | |
Italian | mozzafiato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 息詰まる (to be breathtaking, to be stifling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いきづまる (to be breathtaking, to be stifling, to come to the end of ones tether, to reach the limits). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eathtakingbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | empolgante. (various references) | |
Russian | захватывающий (all-absorbing, arresting, blockbusting, breath-taking, conquering, engrossing, enthralling, riveting, spectacular, thrilling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veličanstven (baronial, grand, grandiose, magnificent, majestic, marvellous, marvelous, noble, palatial, stately, statuesque), uzbudljiv (excitative, excitatory, exciting, skittish, stirring, thrilling). (various references) | |
Spanish | punzante (biting, piercing, poignant, pricking, pungent, shooting, stinging), asombroso (amazing, appaling, appalling, astonishing, astounding, staggering, startling, stupendous, surprising). (various references) | |
Swedish | hisnande, fantastisk (almighty, awe inspiring, awesome, big deal, cracking, divine, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, incredible, jolly, lovely, magnificent, perfect, raving, smashing, stunning, super, tall, terrific, tremendous, whimsical, wild-eyed, wizard, wonderful), andlöst spännande. (various references) | |
Turkish | olağanüstü (above the ordinary, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), nefes kesen, heyecanlandırıcı (electrifying, exciting, heart-warming, lively, stirring). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "breathtaking": breathtakingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "breathtaking" (pronounced bre"thtā'king) |
| 5 | -t ā' k i ng | overtaking, painstaking, undertaking. |
| 4 | -ā' k i ng | bookmaking, dressmaking, earthshaking, filmmaking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, handshaking, heartbreaking, homemaking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, matchmaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, muckraking, papermaking, peacemaking, steelmaking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, braking, breaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, hacking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, mucking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, packing, panicking, parking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-h-i-k-n-r-t-t" | |
-3 letters: battering, breathing, threating. | |
-4 letters: abetting, aerating, attainer, beknight, beraking, berating, berthing, betaking, breaking, brighten, earthing, gnathite, gnattier, habitant, hatteria, hearting, ingather, reattain, rebating, retaking, tabering, treating. | |
-5 letters: abating, agitate, anergia, antbear, arietta, bargain, barking, bathing, battier, batting, bearing, beating, beatnik, bethank, bethink, betting, biretta, bittern, braking, gahnite, gherkin, gittern, granita, granite, gratine, habitan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-h-i-k-n-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: breathtakingly. | |
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