unsuffocating
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
unsuffocating
- present participle and gerund of unsuffocate
Adjective[edit]
unsuffocating (comparative more unsuffocating, superlative most unsuffocating)
- Not suffocating; allowing freedom and ease.
- 1964, Raul S. Manglapus, Rodolfo Severino, Revolt Against Tradition, page 7:
- Overhead the air is free and unsuffocating.
- 2011, John Iliffe, Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World, page 129:
- 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.
- 1996, Bruce Bennett, Jeff Doyle, Satendra Pratap Nandan, Crossing Cultures, page 150:
- For Gibreel, Allie Cone the vanquisher of Everest is the exotic other, is powerful independent unsuffocating Western woman.