Dictionary Entry
absorbent
absorbent is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
- 2noun
Anything which absorbs.
- 3noun
Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
- 4noun
The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
- 5noun
a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
- 6adjective
having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
"as absorbent as a sponge"
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