Word Meanings - SPONGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones. 2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April." Shak. 3. Having the quality of imbibing

Additional info about word: SPONGY

1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones. 2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April." Shak. 3. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge. Spongy lead , sponge lead. See under Sponge. -- Spongy platinum. See under Platinum.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPONGY)

• Humid
• Moist
• wet
• vaporous
• spongy
• damp

Related words: (words related to SPONGY)

• MOISTNESS
  The quality or state of being moist.
• HUMIDNESS
  Humidity.
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• HUMID
  Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton. (more info) akin to uvidus moist, Gr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• MOISTLESS
  Without moisture; dry.
• MOISTY
  Moist.
• MOIST
  1. Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak. 2. Fresh, or new. "Shoes full moist and new." "A draught of moist and corny ale." Chaucer.
• VAPOROUSNESS
  The quality of being vaporous.
• SPONGY
  1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones. 2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April." Shak. 3. Having the quality of imbibing
• MOISTEN
  1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon. 2. To soften by making moist; to make tender. It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity. Fuller.
• MOISTFUL
  Full of moisture.
• HUMIDITY
  Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing. Note: In hygrometrical reports (as of
• OVERMOISTURE
  Excess of moisture.
• OVERMOIST
  Excessively moist. Bacon.