Word Meanings - SHORT-WINDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHORT-WINDED)

• Pursy
• Short-winded
• thickwinded
• short-breathed

Related words: (words related to SHORT-WINDED)

• SHORT-BREATHED
  1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration. 2. Having short life.
• PURSY
  Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence. Shak. Pursy important he sat him down. Sir W. Scot. (more info) thrust, heave, OF. also poulser: cf. F. pousse the heaves, asthma.
• SHORT-WINDED
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.