unsuffocating

English

Verb

unsuffocating

1. present participle and gerund of unsuffocate

Adjective

unsuffocating (comparative more unsuffocating, superlative most unsuffocating)

1. 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.