breath taking

Meaning

"Breath taking" is a common variant of "breathtaking," meaning stunning or awe-inspiring. It describes sights or feats so beautiful, thrilling, or shocking that they seem to steal your breath.

Antonyms

wearing powder sterile draining dusty debilitating
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Examples

It is a magnificent country, lonely, grand in scale, stretching for mile upon mile, the clear blue air stabbed with peaks of snow, where the sun glints on the ice surfaces, green as sea ice, breath taking in its scope. Judy LaMarsh

Words in the phrase

breath taking

Close letter words and terms

breath sound breath spray breath strip breath test breath-catching breath-catchingly