absorbent material

1. 1.

   a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance

   Synonymsabsorbent

   Broadersorbent

   Narrowerspongeabsorberabsorbent cotton

Questions about absorbent material

What does absorbent material mean?

absorbent material means "a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance".

What is another word for absorbent material?

Close synonyms include absorbent. 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.

Is absorbent material a common word?

absorbent material 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.