adj
irrespirable
Irrespirable (adj) means not fit or safe to breathe.
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Not fit or safe to breathe.
"The air was growing fouler and more irrespirable, with a thick, sodden quality, as if from a sediment of material rottenness; and we had about decided to turn back."
— Clark Ashton Smith, The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis (1932)
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Etymology
Either: * from ir- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + respirable; or * borrowed from French irrespirable, from Late Latin irrespīrābilis, from Latin ir- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + respīrāre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able to be’). Respīrāre is the present active infinitive of respīrō (“to blow or breathe back; to breathe, respire; to breathe out, exhale”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + spīrō (“to blow; to breathe, respire; to breathe out, exhale”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow; to breathe”)).
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What is the meaning of irrespirable?
"irrespirable" (adj) means not fit or safe to breathe.
What is the opposite of irrespirable?
The opposite of "irrespirable" is breathable.
