absorbent

1. 1.

   a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance

   Synonymsabsorbent material

   Broadersorbent

   Narrowerspongeabsorberabsorbent cotton

1. 1.

   having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)

   “as absorbent as a sponge”

   Synonymsabsorptive

   Antonymsnonabsorbent

   Similarabsorbefacientassimilatinghygroscopicreceptiveshock-absorbentspongythirsty

Other forms of absorbent

plural

absorbents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about absorbent

What does absorbent mean?

absorbent means "a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in absorbent?

absorbent has 3 syllables: ab-sor-bent. The stress falls on "sor". In IPA it is /əbˈzɔɹbənt/.

What is another word for absorbent?

Close synonyms include absorbent material, absorptive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of absorbent?

The recorded antonyms are nonabsorbent.

Is absorbent a common word?

absorbent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.