asfixiante
Portuguese, adjective
asfixiante is spelled A-S-F-I-X-I-A-N-T-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Asfixiante is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “asphyxiating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que asfixia”.
What does asfixiante mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineasphyxiating
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que asfixia
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of asfixiante
- asfixiantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is asfixiante in Portuguese?
asfixiante appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).