| ADJECTIVE | all | absorptive, absorbent | having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids / liquids or energy etc.) |
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| Meaning | Having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids / liquids or energy etc.). | |
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| Synonym | absorbent | |
| 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 | absorptivity | (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body |
| Verbs | absorb | become imbued |
| absorb | suck or take up or in | |
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