Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsuffocating

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-suf-fo-cat-ing
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of unsuffocate

adj

Not suffocating; allowing freedom and ease.

Example Sentences

"Overhead the air is free and unsuffocating."
"By the 1990s, while still championing active government, he aligned himself publicly with the prevailing orthodoxy that 'African countries [should] promote a strategy of privatesector led growth with government mainly concerned with providing the hospitable environment and unsuffocating regulatory framework."
"For Gibreel, Allie Cone the vanquisher of Everest is the exotic other, is powerful independent unsuffocating Western woman."

Inflected Forms

more unsuffocating (comparative) most unsuffocating (superlative)

Questions

What does unsuffocating mean?: present participle and gerund of unsuffocate

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