adsorbent

1. 1.

   a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance

   Synonymsadsorbent material

   Broadersorbent

1. 1.

   having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface

   Synonymsadsorptivesurface-assimilative

   Antonymsnonadsorbent

   Similarchemisorptive

Other forms of adsorbent

plural

adsorbents·

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 adsorbent

What does adsorbent mean?

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

How many syllables are in adsorbent?

adsorbent has 3 syllables: ad-sor-bent. The stress falls on "ad".

What is another word for adsorbent?

Close synonyms include adsorbent material, adsorptive, surface-assimilative. 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 adsorbent?

The recorded antonyms are nonadsorbent.

Is adsorbent a common word?

adsorbent 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.