Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling a sponge in elasticity, absorbency, or porousness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the nature or character of a sponge; spongiform or spongoid.
- Resembling a sponge in certain particulars; soft or elastic and porous; of open, loose, compressible texture, like a bath-sponge; punky, pithy, or soft-grained, as wood; boggy or soggy, as soil; absorbent; imbibitive. See cuts under cellular and cystolith.
- As it were soaked with drink; drunken.
- Moist; wet; rainy.
- In bookbinding, having a certain looseness or softness, which arises from irregularities in type impressions which have not been beaten out.
Wiktionary
- adj. having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous
- adj. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture
- adj. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
- adj. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
- adj. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
Examples
“The interior of bitter melon is packed with large seeds suspended in spongy material.”
Tigers & Strawberries » Eating Bitter, Part One: An Introduction to the Bitter Melon
“Thirdly, two nerves also or appendages of the brain, for they do not go beyond the limits of the skull, are moved by the particles of terrestrial bodies, separated and flying in the air, not indeed by all particles indifferently, but by those only that are sufficiently subtle and penetrating to enter the pores of the bone we call the spongy, when drawn into the nostrils, and thus to reach the nerves.”
“The space between these anterior and posterior openings makes a large chamber, divided by a vertical wall into halves, each of which is still further separated into three irregular cavities by three bones, called spongy, from the porosity and delicacy of their texture.”
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
“The red marrow is located in what is known as the spongy substance of the bones (Chapter XIV) and consists, to a large extent, of cells somewhat like the red corpuscles, but differing from them in having nuclei.”
“The results showed that specific details of the cranial bones and beak - such as the relative "spongy"-ness of the bone at different places in the skull and the unequal lengths of the upper and lower parts of the beak - were crucial for preventing impact injury.”
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“If the bosky scent of dells and the idea of spongy moss against naked flesh gets you going, Mellors and Lady Chatterley-style, there remain a few pockets of urban woodland in London that provide fertile ground for al fresco fun.”
“Has anyone ever had an issue with baked eggs becoming "spongy"?”
“That roof can get very, very -- what we call kind of spongy because it's being impinged by the fire.”
“A huge imponderable is how, and for how long, this trauma, and what promises to be a long, often shadowy war against what Rudman calls "spongy" targets, will affect American realism.”
“Robotics experts also have been searching for the right kind of spongy material to mimic muscle tissue and make movements less jerky.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spongy’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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antidisestablishmentarianist's Words
spongy, turducken, expunge, redact, diaspora, ingest, axillary, extant, gesso
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