| ADJECTIVE | all | absorbent, absorptive | having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids / liquids or energy etc.) |
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| NOUN | substance | absorbent, absorbent material | a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance |
| Sounds | ahbzao'rbahnt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | Having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids / liquids or energy etc.). | |
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| Example | "as absorbent as a sponge" | |
| Synonym | absorptive | |
| Attribute of | absorbency | The property of being absorbent |
| Narrower | absorbefacient, sorbefacient | inducing or promoting absorption |
| assimilating, assimilative, assimilatory | Capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | |
| hygroscopic | absorbing moisture (as from the air) | |
| receptive | Able to absorb liquid (not repellent) | |
| shock-absorbent | Having the capacity to absorb the energy of an impact | |
| spongy, spongelike | like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids / liquids and yield it back when compressed | |
| thirsty | able to take in large quantities of moisture | |
| Opposite | nonabsorbent, nonabsorptive | not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids / liquids) |
| Spanish | absorbente | |
| Catalan | absorbent | |
| Nouns | absorbency | the property of being absorbent |
| Verbs | absorb | become imbued |
| absorb | suck or take up or in | |
| Meaning | A material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance. | |
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| Synonym | absorbent material | |
| Narrower | absorbent cotton | cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax |
| absorber | (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation | |
| sponge | A porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | |
| Broader | sorbent, sorbent material | A material that sorbs another substance |
| Spanish | absorbente, material absorbente | |
| Catalan | absorbent | |
| Verbs | absorb | become imbued |
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