fluorinated
adjective, verb
fluorinated is an adjective meaning “Treated or reacted with fluorine or hydrofluoric acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-I-N-A-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fluorinated mean?
adjective
- 1
Treated or reacted with fluorine or hydrofluoric acid.
- 2
Formally derived from another compound by the replacement of one or more atoms of hydrogen with fluorine.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of fluorinate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluorinated?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-fluorinated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fluorinated
- more fluorinated comparative
- most fluorinated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluorinated?
Fluorinated appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd 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).