short-winded

short-wind·ed (shôrtwndd)

adj.

1. Breathing with quick labored breaths.

2. Likely to have difficulty in breathing, especially from exertion.

3. Brief and succinct.

4. Choppy; disconnected.

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short-winded

Adjective

tending to run out of breath easily

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

short-winded - breathing laboriously or convulsively pursy, winded, blown breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic - not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; "breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless from running"; "followed the match with breathless interest"