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All absorbent synonyms

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adjective absorbent

  • hygroscopic — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
  • assimilative — of or causing assimilation; assimilating
  • assimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • absorbefacient — a medicine or other agent that promotes absorption
  • assimilatory — characterized by assimilation; assimilating.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.

adj absorbent

  • dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
  • absorptive — able or tending to absorb; absorbent.
  • penetrable — capable of being penetrated.
  • permeable — capable of being permeated.
  • porous — full of pores.
  • spongy — of the nature of or resembling a sponge; light, porous, and elastic or readily compressible, as pith or bread.
  • thirsty — feeling or having thirst; craving liquid.
  • bibulous — addicted to alcohol
  • pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
  • retentive — tending or serving to retain something.
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