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ABSORPTIVE

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 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)play

Example:

as absorbent as a sponge

Synonyms:

absorbent; absorptive

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

absorbefacient; sorbefacient (inducing or promoting absorption)

assimilating; assimilative; assimilatory (capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution)

hygroscopic (absorbing moisture (as from the air))

receptive (able to absorb liquid (not repellent))

shock-absorbent (having the capacity to absorb the energy of an impact)

spongelike; spongy (like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed)

thirsty (able to take in large quantities of moisture)

Attribute:

absorbency (the property of being absorbent)

Derivation:

absorb (become imbued)

absorb (suck or take up or in)

absorptivity ((physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body)

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