adsorbable

1. 1.

   capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid

   Synonymsadsorbate

   Antonymsabsorbable

Questions about adsorbable

What does adsorbable mean?

adsorbable means "capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid".

How many syllables are in adsorbable?

adsorbable has 4 syllables: ad-sor-ba-ble. The stress falls on "sor".

What is another word for adsorbable?

Close synonyms include adsorbate. 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 adsorbable?

The recorded antonyms are absorbable.

Is adsorbable a common word?

adsorbable 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.