adjective. Resembling a sponge in elasticity, absorbency, or porousness.

In bookbinding, having a certain looseness or softness, which arises from irregularities in type impressions which have not been beaten out.

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.

adjective. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture

adjective. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

adjective. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.

adjective. sponge lead. See under Sponge.

adjective. See under Platinum.

adjective. having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous

adjective. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

adjective. like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed

adjective. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility

"The interior of bitter melon is packed with large seeds suspended in spongy material."

spongy bones  spongy cartilage  spongy platinum  

absorbent  absorptive  soft  

bungee  grungy  

brittle  char  creamy  fibrous  friable  

absorbent  absorbent  adsorbent  assimilative  baccate  

spongier  spongiest