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SPONGELIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spongelike mean?
• SPONGELIKE (adjective)
The adjective SPONGELIKE has 2 senses:
1. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
2. like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
Familiarity information: SPONGELIKE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
Synonyms:
spongelike; spongy; squashy; squishy
Context example:
spongy bread
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
Synonyms:
spongelike; spongy
Similar:
absorbent; absorptive (having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.))
Context examples
The bottom of the valley was soggy with water, which the thick moss held, spongelike, close to the surface.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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