hydrogenated
adjective, verb
hydrogenated is an adjective meaning “That has been treated, or reacted with hydrogen; especially describing a saturated fat so obtained from an unsaturated fat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-G-E-N-A-T-E-D and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hydrogenated mean?
adjective
- 1
That has been treated, or reacted with hydrogen; especially describing a saturated fat so obtained from an unsaturated fat.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of hydrogenate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrogenated?
Hydrogenated has 5 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).
Forms of hydrogenated
- more hydrogenated comparative
- most hydrogenated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrogenated?
Hydrogenated appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th 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).
Hydrogenated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that has been treated, or reacted with hydrogen:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydrogéné |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.