ADJECTIVE | all | soluble | (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) |
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all | soluble | susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained |
Sounds | saa'lyahbahl | |
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Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... |
Meaning | (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water). | |
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Narrower | alcohol-soluble | soluble in alcohol |
dissolvable, dissoluble | capable of dissolving | |
fat-soluble | soluble in fats | |
meltable, disintegrable | capable of melting | |
oil-soluble | soluble in oil | |
water-soluble | soluble in water | |
Opposite | insoluble, indissoluble | (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved |
Spanish | soluble | |
Catalan | soluble | |
Nouns | solubility | the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid / liquid |
solubility | the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution) | |
solubleness | the property of being dissoluble |
Meaning | susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained. | |
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Example | "the puzzle is soluble" | |
Narrower | answerable | capable of being answered |
solvable, resolvable | capable of being solved | |
See also | explicable | capable of being explicated or accounted for |
Opposite | insoluble | Admitting of no solution or explanation / explanation |
Spanish | soluble | |
Catalan | soluble | |
Nouns | solubility | the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve |
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