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say it: LI-kwuhd
liquid is an adjective and noun meaning "existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow". It carries 11 recorded senses.
existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
“water and milk and blood are liquid substances”
filled or brimming with tears
“swimming eyes”
“sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid”
a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for liquid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.