chlorinated
adjective, verb
chlorinated is an adjective meaning “that has had chlorine added to it to purify it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-L-O-R-I-N-A-T-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chlorinated mean?
adjective
- 1
that has had chlorine added to it to purify it.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of chlorinate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chlorinated?
- US
Chlorinated has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-chlorinated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chlorinated
- more chlorinated comparative
- most chlorinated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chlorinated?
Chlorinated appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).