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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility;
- Example: "spongy bread"
[syn: spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike]

2. like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed;
[syn: spongy, spongelike]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spongy \Spon"gy\ (sp[u^]n"j[y^]), a. 1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones. [1913 Webster] 2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge. [1913 Webster] Spongy lead (Chem.), sponge lead. See under Sponge. Spongy platinum. See under Platinum. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spongy adj 1: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread" [syn: spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike] 2: like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed [syn: spongy, spongelike]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "spongy": absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, baccate, bibulous, blotting, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, cribriform, digestive, doughy, edematous, endosmotic, exosmotic, flabby, fleshy, imbibitory, leachy, macerated, masticated, medullary, mushy, osmotic, pappy, pasty, percolating, pithy, porose, porous, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, puppy, quaggy, resorbent, sievelike, soaking, soft, sorbent, spongelike, spongeous, squashy, squelchy, squishy, succulent, thirsty, yielding