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Meaning of "breathtakingly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BREATHTAKINGLY

breathtakingly  [ˈbrɛθteɪkɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BREATHTAKINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Breathtakingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES BREATHTAKINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of breathtakingly in the English dictionary

The definition of breathtakingly in the dictionary is extremely; to the extent of causing surprise, shock or awe.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BREATHTAKINGLY


achingly
ˈeɪkɪŋlɪ
creakingly
ˈkriːkɪŋlɪ
half-jokingly
ˌhɑːfˈdʒəʊkɪŋlɪ
heartbreakingly
ˈhɑːtˌbreɪkɪŋlɪ
jawbreakingly
ˈdʒɔːˌbreɪkɪŋlɪ
jokingly
ˈdʒəʊkɪŋlɪ
kingly
ˈkɪŋlɪ
mockingly
ˈmɒkɪŋlɪ
painstakingly
ˈpeɪnzteɪkɪŋlɪ
provokingly
prəˈvəʊkɪŋlɪ
quakingly
ˈkweɪkɪŋlɪ
shockingly
ˈʃɒkɪŋlɪ
shrinkingly
ˈʃrɪŋkɪŋlɪ
smirkingly
ˈsmɜːkɪŋlɪ
squeakingly
ˈskwiːkɪŋlɪ
strikingly
ˈstraɪkɪŋlɪ
takingly
ˈteɪkɪŋlɪ
unblinkingly
ˌʌnˈblɪŋkɪŋlɪ
unthinkingly
ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋlɪ
winkingly
ˈwɪŋkɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BREATHTAKINGLY

breathe
breathe again
breathe down someone´s neck
breathe one´s last
breathed
breather
breathful
breathier
breathiest
breathily
breathiness
breathing
breathing apparatus
breathing exercise
breathing space
breathless
breathlessly
breathlessness
breathtaking
breathy

WORDS THAT END LIKE BREATHTAKINGLY

accordingly
amazingly
astonishingly
correspondingly
exceedingly
increasingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
livingly
lovingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
sickeningly
singly
sparingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
unknowingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of breathtakingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «breathtakingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BREATHTAKINGLY

Find out the translation of breathtakingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of breathtakingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «breathtakingly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

让人赞叹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

impresionantemente
570 millions of speakers

English

breathtakingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

breathtakingly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مذهل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

умопомрачительно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de tirar o fôlego
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

breathtakingly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à couper le souffle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan penuh semangat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

atemberaubend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

息を呑むほど
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아슬 아슬
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Breathtakingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tuyệt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வியப்புத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

श्वापदार्थाने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nefes kesici
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incredibilmente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zapierające dech w piersiach
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

запаморочливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

extraordinar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κόβει την ανάσα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

asemrowend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ringade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forbløffende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of breathtakingly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BREATHTAKINGLY»

The term «breathtakingly» is regularly used and occupies the 55.524 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BREATHTAKINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «breathtakingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «breathtakingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about breathtakingly

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6 QUOTES WITH «BREATHTAKINGLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word breathtakingly.
1
Patch Adams
We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
2
Richard Dawkins
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
3
Yann Martel
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
4
Christopher Moore
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.
5
Liane Moriarty
Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.
6
Joe Nichols
Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREATHTAKINGLY»

Discover the use of breathtakingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to breathtakingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An Iconic Leaf--Stories of Words
APPEARING ACT (in FIRST SNAP OF WINTER) Amazing. its so breathtakingly brilliant and well written its so full of emotion so well I can almost feel his pain. Very good, loved it! What makes this story wonderful is it doesn't matter who the ...
Barry Eysman, 2010
2
Caracara: A Breathingly [i.e. Breathtakingly] Audacious Plan ...
An audacious plan is hatched to hold the world to ransom, and only John Blackham, former soldier and now assistant Crown Counsel to the Falklands Secretariat, can avert the catastrophe.
Keith Michel, 1995
3
Chef Jojo's Basic Cooking Lessons Vol 1
It's comfort food at its finest, breathtakingly versatile. What other food is all this: the perfect thing to What other food is all this: the perfect thing to What other food is all this: the perfect thing to What other food is all this: the perfect thing to feed the ...
Fortunato JoJo Tallorin
4
My 52 Weeks of Worship: Lessons from A Global, Spiritual, ...
week. 13. breaThTakIngly. beauTIful. devoTIons. The. bahá'í. house. of ... a way that cannot be ignored. It's a breathtakingly beautiful edifice—a white, nine-sided temple surrounded by gardens and fountains with a long flight of stairs from the.
Ekpedeme "Pamay" M. Bassey, 2012
5
The Practical Writer with Readings
by Edward Hiller Switzerland is breathtakingly beautiful. A small town named Grindelwald, for example, lies at the foot of two of the most famous mountains in the world—the Eiger and the Jungfrau. These rugged, snowy mountains tower ...
Edward Bailey, Philip Powell, 2007
6
Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries
It turns out that we reserve the word 'evil' in everyday life for actions that evoke the emotion of horror: acts that are breathtakingly horrible because of the intense suffering to which the victims are subjected, the outrageousness of the acts, their  ...
Peter Verhagen, Herman M. Van Praag, Juan José López-Ibor, Jr., 2009
7
The Little Book of Perfumes: The 100 classics
Sprayed on a blotter, thefirst thingthat happened was a big, breathtakingly gorgeous fruity topnote, whichI promptly decided to forget about, since what doesn't have a big fruity top notethese days?Thesecond timeIsmelled it, I sprayed itfrom ...
Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, 2011
8
Unleashed
... breathtakingly graceful, though.” “Well, breathtakingly graceful, of course. How did I forget breathtakingly graceful?” “So I thought about what you thought about me. Then.
Kristopher Reisz, 2010
9
New York Magazine
BREATHTAKINGLY. HYATT. two spectacular Hyatt resorts. With entrancing views of the hillsidt sparkling in the luminescent twilight. The Hyatt Regency Acapulco. ' ned for their • 1 sine, myriad : and spectacular activities. \ Ivatt Acapulco.
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Art
BREATHTAKINGLY. HYATT. Television/ John Leonard DISORDER IN THE COURT ". . .There. Metropolitan's show has set off celebrations of modern Israel in other locations around New York. Later this month, the Jewish Museum will display ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREATHTAKINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term breathtakingly is used in the context of the following news items.
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England's Official Twitter Account Deletes 'Breathtakingly Sexist …
... England's official Twitter account, later deleted, has prompted uproar from users who blasted its message as being "breathtakingly sexist". «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
2
Plumber Jamie Kerswill gets 876 days jail for 'breathtakingly stupid …
Serial burglar Jamie Kerswill raided a semi-detached home in Malvern Road, west Hull, on November 8 last year, while the owner was in ... «Hull Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Serie A Needs a Healthy Milan: Could It Be About to Get It?
The legendary Marcello Lippi, who knows a thing or two about near misses in Champions League finals with breathtakingly good sides, called ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
4
11 aircraft to look out for at the Wales National Air Show in Swansea …
Known as the "Lynx pair", their show is acrobatic and at times looks extremely dangerous, as the Royal Navy helicopters get breathtakingly ... «South Wales Evening Post, Jul 15»
5
Labor pushes on with level crossing plan despite upper house …
"For Labor to claim the parliament is denying it money after paying almost a billion dollars not to build the East West Link is breathtakingly ... «The Age, Jul 15»
6
Dulquer Salmaan hits the road with buddies
The actor, who has often confessed his love for vehicles and travelling in real life too, is on a road trip with his friends via the breathtakingly ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
7
The dangerous truth about Europe's obsession with austerity: Why …
... the human species demonstrated its ability to put its industrial knowhow to work to destroy other humans on a breathtakingly efficient scale. «Salon, Jul 15»
8
No, The Guardian, a magic carbon layer is not a sign of …
Sometimes, scientists announce things that are breathtakingly stupid. The Guardian, which generally has pretty good science coverage, has an ... «Ars Technica UK, Jul 15»
9
USA Singers and Stonehaven Chorus put on a show
... SMS choir entered from the back of the church and surrounded their audience to sing this piece and the effect was breathtakingly beautiful. «Mearns Leader, Jul 15»
10
Astronomers May Have Found Evidence of Alien Life on a Comet, or …
and saying that "sometimes, scientists announce things that are breathtakingly stupid." Lee reasons that the comet's features can be best ... «VICE, Jul 15»

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