All spongy synonyms
spon·gy
S s adj spongy
- absorptive — able or tending to absorb; absorbent.
- bibulous — addicted to alcohol
- flexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- mushy — resembling mush; pulpy.
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- mashed — a flirtation or infatuation.
- mashy — mashie.
- formable — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- cushiony — soft and comfortable like a cushion.
- featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
- bendable — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- cottony — of or like cotton; downy; fluffy
- absorbent — Absorbent material soaks up liquid easily.
- doughy — of or like dough, especially in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby: a doughy consistency; a fat, doughy face.
- floatable — capable of floating; that can be floated.
adjective spongy
- light — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- weightless — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- imponderous — (obsolete) imponderable.
- hashed — Simple past tense and past participle of hash.
- whippy — of, relating to, or resembling a whip.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
- osmotic — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.
- enterable — Capable of being entered.
- quaggy — of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
noun spongy
- absorbency — capable of absorbing heat, light, moisture, etc.; tending to absorb.