absorbable

1. 1.

   capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface

   Antonymsadsorbable

Questions about absorbable

What does absorbable mean?

absorbable means "capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface".

How many syllables are in absorbable?

absorbable has 4 syllables and divides as ab-sor-ba-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of absorbable?

The recorded antonyms are adsorbable.

Is absorbable a common word?

absorbable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.