absorbent
Meaning of absorbent
adjective
- (of a material) able to soak up liquid easily.
absorbent kitchen paper
noun
a substance that soaks up liquid easily.
early 18th century: from Latin absorbent- ‘swallowing up’, from the verb absorbere (see absorb).
Information about absorbent
- The plural form of absorbent is: absorbents.
- Languages in which absorbent is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of absorbent
ab-sorbent
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- absorbent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
absorbent synonyms
Meaning absorptive:
Meaning (of a rock or other material) having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass:
Meaning like a sponge, especially in being porous, compressible, or absorbent:
Meaning (of a material or membrane) allowing liquids or gases to pass through it:
Meaning (of a substance) allowing water to pass through; permeable:
Meaning allowing things to pass through; permeable:
Meaning willing to consider or accept new suggestions and ideas:
Meaning extremely wet; wet through:
Meaning dry (a wet surface or substance) using an absorbent material:
Meaning having or denoting a porous structure or consistency resembling that of a sponge:
Meaning causing absorption:
absorbent antonyms
Meaning not allowing fluid to pass through:
Meaning impervious to water:
Translation of absorbent
- French: absorbant
- Italian: assorbente
- Spanish: absorbente
- Portuguese: absorvente
- German: absorptiv, absorbierend
Words that rhyme with absorbent
Bent, bent, collabent, preterlabent, Broadbent, finebent, rebent, Dibent, describent, omniscribent, hellbent, accumbent, cumbent, decumbent, incumbent, lambent, latericumbent, nonincumbent, procumbent, recumbent, semirecumbent, succumbent, superincumbent, unrecumbent, ventricumbent, downbent, inbent, unbent, Derbent, adsorbent, coadsorbent, hemadsorbent, immunoadsorbent, immunosorbent, insorbent, nonabsorbent, nonadsorbent, preabsorbent, radioallergosorbent, radioimmunosorbent, resorbent, semiabsorbent, sorbent, superabsorbent, unabsorbent, outbent, atrorubent, bowbent
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