adsorptive

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsadsorbentsurface-assimilative

   Similarchemisorptive

Questions about adsorptive

What does adsorptive mean?

adsorptive means "having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface".

How many syllables are in adsorptive?

adsorptive has 3 syllables: ad-sorp-tive. The stress falls on "ad".

What is another word for adsorptive?

Close synonyms include adsorbent, 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.

Is adsorptive a common word?

adsorptive 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.