suffocative

An adjective describing something that causes difficulty in breathing or a feeling of being smothered; now rarely used in modern English.

• 🇨🇳形容词，指令人窒息或引起呼吸困难的事物；在现代英语中较少使用。

1. Causing breathing difficulty C1 formal

   Describing an environment or condition that makes it hard to breathe, often due to lack of fresh air or excessive heat.

   • The room was suffocative, with no windows open and the heater on full blast.
   • The suffocative heat of the desert made travel nearly impossible.
   • He found the crowded subway car suffocative and had to get off at the next stop.

   🇨🇳令人窒息的

   同义词: airlessclosemuggyoppressivesmotheringstiflingstuffysuffocating

   反义词: airyfreshventilated

• more suffocative comparative form
• most suffocative superlative form