Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breathable \Breath"a*ble\ (br[=e][th]"[.a]*b'l), a. Such as can be breathed.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of air English) suitable for breathing 2 (context of a fabric, etc. English) Letting air seep through.
Usage examples of "breathable".
Pisces speech patterns were direct, despite our many references to our children, which we understood as the breathable future.
The good the breathable is has been nearly undone by the evil the unbreathable does.
Promise have made known your ways and the breathable knowledge of the Pisces.
Our children must continue construction or that which is breathable will be given to the Unbreathable and lost to all children.
Groundfather, he who made us breathable and with children, cries for the wrongs committed to him and his people and to the people he is of.
Groundfather, he who made us breathable and with children, sees his children gathered today.
Of Pisces construction, it made the unbreathable breathable for a time.
I had never heard of a gas giant with breathable oxygen-nitrogen mix, but I was breathing.
Northwest more than a thousand klicks along the high ridge from Gunung Agung is Kilimacharo, where the denizens of the lower terraces disinter their dead from the loamy fissures after a decent interval and carry the bones high above breathable atmosphere -- climbing in handsewn skinsuits and pressure masks -- to rebury their relatives in rock-hard ice near the eighteen-thousand-meter level, with the skulls staring through ice toward the summit in eternal hopefulness.
But its people -- mostly Suni Muslim engineers from the failed Trans-African Genetic Reclamation Project -- stubbornly refused to die during the Fall, and ended up terraforming Groombridge Dyson D into a Laplandic tundra world with breathable air and adapted-Old Earth flora and fauna, including wooly mammoths wandering the equatorial highlands.
We did descend into the clouds, but these were the monsoon clouds, the water vapor clouds, the breathable clouds.
Where the air is sweet and clean and breathable, and life blossoms everywhere on its own, without having to be wheedled and begged and cosseted .
The air was breathable, but the ammonia in it would give them all headaches.
There was air, of course, of breathable content and pressure, through which from time to time there passed a wave of some exotic, inorganic stench.
The alien biospheres that had produced that precious blend of breathable gases were inevitably hostile and poisonous to terrestrial organisms, some immediately fatal.