surface-assimilative

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsadsorbentadsorptive

   Similarchemisorptive

Questions about surface-assimilative

What does surface-assimilative mean?

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

How many syllables are in surface-assimilative?

surface-assimilative has 8 syllables: sur-fa-ce--as-si-mi-la-tive. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for surface-assimilative?

Close synonyms include adsorbent, adsorptive. 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 surface-assimilative a common word?

surface-assimilative 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.