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ABSORPTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
Example:
as absorbent as a sponge
Synonyms:
absorbent; absorptive
Classified under:
Similar:
absorbefacient; sorbefacient (inducing or promoting absorption)
assimilating; assimilative; assimilatory (capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution)
hygroscopic (absorbing moisture (as from the air))
receptive (able to absorb liquid (not repellent))
shock-absorbent (having the capacity to absorb the energy of an impact)
spongelike; spongy (like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed)
thirsty (able to take in large quantities of moisture)
Attribute:
absorbency (the property of being absorbent)
Derivation:
absorb (become imbued)
absorb (suck or take up or in)
absorptivity ((physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body)
