ventilatory
adjective
ventilatory is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, functioning as, or by means of a ventilator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-T-I-L-A-T-O-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ventilatory mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, functioning as, or by means of a ventilator.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ventilatory
- more ventilatory comparative
- most ventilatory superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ventilatory?
Ventilatory appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
Where does ventilatory come from?
From ventilate + -ory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).