spongy
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1 spongy
Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility:
— Spongy bread.
synoniemen: spongelike, squashy, squishy.
Roget 252a: cellular, spongy, spongious†; honeycombed, alveolar; sintered; porous (opening) 260.
Roget 322: rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light etc. 320; cavernous, spongy etc. ... meer laten zien
Roget 324: soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile†, ... meer laten zien
Pools: gąbkowaty, gąbczasty
2 spongy
Like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed.
synoniem: spongelike.
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, baccate, bibulous, blotting, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, cribriform, digestive, doughy, edematous, endosmotic, exosmotic, flabby, fleshy, imbibitory, leachy, macerated, masticated ... meer laten zien.
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