Stifling Synonyms and Antonyms

stīflĭng
Oppressive due to a lack of fresh air
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. airless
  2. close
  3. sultry
  4. stuffy
  5. sulfurous
  6. sulphurous
Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. suffocating
  2. choking
  3. smothering
  4. asphyxiating
  5. extinguishing
Antonyms:
  1. encouraging
  2. persuading
  3. helping
To keep from being published or transmitted
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. suppressing
  2. hushing
  3. censoring
  4. banning
Smother or suppress
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. muting
  2. muffling
  3. dampening
  4. deadening
Antonyms:
  1. stimulating
Conceal or hide
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. strangling
  2. smothering
  3. repressing
  4. suppressing
  5. muffling
  6. throttling
  7. trammelling
  8. suffocating
  9. stultifying
  10. stopping
  11. squelching
  12. gagging
  13. silencing
  14. restraining
  15. choking
  16. quenching
  17. interrupting
  18. inhibiting
  19. hushing
  20. curbing
  21. checking
  22. asphyxiating
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. suppression
  2. crushing
  3. quelling

Words Related to Stifling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Stifling Sentence Examples

  • They had to break this stifling relationship off before it smothered all reason from them.

  • Those ahead of him grew more restless with the passing time, eerie quiet, and stifling heat.

  • The evening heat was stifling.

  • The church was hot and loud, the scents that overwhelmed her outside stifling.

  • The air was still and the heat stifling.

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