unventilated.

Lacking ventilation or sufficient exchange of air.

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Words that belong together

• an unventilated cellar
• an unventilated compartment

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The unventilated cellar held the smell long after the bottles were removed.

They refused to enter the unventilated compartment until its atmosphere had been checked.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Comparative more unventilated; superlative most unventilated where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.