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oxygenated

adjective, verb

oxygenated is an adjective meaning “Containing oxygen, or oxygen-containing radicals, as substituents” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-X-Y-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 oxygenated mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing oxygen, or oxygen-containing radicals, as substituents

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of oxygenate (a form of oxygenate)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce oxygenated?

    Oxygenated 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 oxygenated

    • more oxygenated comparative
    • most oxygenated superlative

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is oxygenated?

    Oxygenated appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,949th 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).

    Oxygenated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense Translations:

    LanguageWords
    Portugueseoxigenado
    Spanishoxigenado

    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.