absorbent
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
Types & categories
- sorbent hypernym
- sponge hyponym
- absorber hyponym
- absorbent cotton hyponym
Related & opposite
- absorb derivation
Sense 2 adjective
having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
as absorbent as a sponge
Related & opposite
- nonabsorbent antonym
- absorbency attribute
- absorbency derivation
- absorptivity derivation
- absorb derivation
- take in derivation
- absorbefacient similar to
- assimilating similar to
- hygroscopic similar to
- receptive similar to
- shock-absorbent similar to
- spongy similar to
- thirsty similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | absorb |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sorbent |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sponge |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | absorber |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | absorbent cotton |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | nonabsorbent |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | absorbency |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | absorbency |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | absorptivity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | absorb |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | take in |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | absorbefacient |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | assimilating |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | hygroscopic |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | receptive |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | shock-absorbent |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | spongy |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | thirsty |