unventilated

Examples

• All

• We think immediately of salt loss by sweating under hot conditions: while slaves were working, marching, or confined in unventilated barracoons or ships' holds.

  Academic text (1991)

• Working in an unventilated space can lead to health issues due to poor air quality.

• 1 franc a day for 10 hours' work in a crowded, unventilated room.

  Moulin Rouge (1952)

• Stale air rushed in from the hot, unventilated hallway.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The dreaded Middle Passage across the Atlantic killed 10 percent of the slaves, chained together in a hot, crowded, unventilated hold without sanitation.

  Academic text (1991)

• The reek of urine, the odor of mice, the unventilated stench of neglect.

  Fiction book (1994)

• This was a while back, before meth was fashionable, so unfortunately it wasn't yet known that if you work in an unventilated room, the fumes can and, in fact, do blind you.

  The Lookout (2007)

• COPD is common in women, mainly because they inhale smoke from fuels such as wood and any other rubbish they can find that is used in their small, unventilated huts and homes for cooking and heating.

  Academic text (2010)

• Meals were cooked on open stoves in the unventilated hall, masculine brawls broke out, and babies left unattended screamed all night.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The children felt dizzy after playing in the unventilated room for too long.

Synonyms

C

close

vsunventilated

29 3.4

Too warm and without fresh air

is about missing fresh air circulation without stressing warmth

S

stuffy

vsunventilated

13 2.7

A room with little fresh air that feels uncomfortable to breathe in

highlights the missing fresh air circulation rather than the unpleasantness

A

airless

vsunventilated

4 4.9

A room or building with little fresh air that feels stuffy

focuses on the lack of fresh air circulation rather than the feeling

S

suffocating

vsunventilated

1 5.1

Making it hard to breathe because the air is hot, close, or not fresh

describes missing fresh air circulation but with less extreme breathing danger

U

unvented

vsunventilated

1 7.9

Having no openings for air or gas to leave

describes the same lack of airflow in practical circulation terms

V

ventless

vsunventilated

• Specialized

1 5.6

Does not have an opening for air to go outside

focuses on overall fresh air circulation rather than vent presence

U

unairable

vsunventilated

8.2

Too closed to let in fresh air

says the space simply lacks fresh air circulation now rather than being impossible to air

S

suffocative

vsunventilated

8.6

Hot, heavy air that makes it hard to breathe

refers more neutrally to absent fresh air circulation rather than causing harm

U

unbreathable

vsunventilated

7.1

Material that does not let air through, making you feel hot and damp

means the area lacks fresh air circulation but may be less extreme

Antonyms

V

ventilated

3.6

Having fresh air moving into and out of a room

How Ventilated

airy

13 2.3

ventilated

3.6

unventilated

1 6.3

unairable

8.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology