spongy
/ˈspʌn(d)ʒi
/(also spongey)
adjective (spongier, spongiest)
1Like a sponge, especially in being porous, compressible, or absorbent: a soft, spongy blanket of moss...
- They wanted to disentangle themselves from the soft, spongy webs that had grown around them and the way they went about it was very silly.
- The flavour was essence of crab, the texture, like a soft, moist spongey doughnut - very different and entirely delicious.
- Besides the fact that I've been drowned thoroughly in PMS, my neck glands are up (having a spongey, swollen double chin does nothing to improve my demeanor).
Synonyms
soft, cushiony, cushioned, squashy, compressible, yielding;
springy, resilient, elastic;
porous, absorbent, absorptive, permeable, pervious;
light
technical spongiform
British informal squidgy
rare spongiose
1.1(Of metal) having an open, porous structure: spongy platinum
1.2(Chiefly of a motor vehicle’s braking system) lacking firmness.There's so much torque, but I wasn't sure about the brakes; they were a bit spongey.
Derivatives
spongily
sponginess
/ noun ...- ‘Everywhere reason is under threat as a sponginess of thought blurs the line between the real and the fantastical’.
- ‘Let us go for tea,’ I suggested, putting my hand on his arm, noting its tremble and sponginess.
- I'm not referring to the sponginess of the ground, I'm referring to that shelf, which is there I believe still now.
Rhymes
- self-adjusting
- self-adjustment
- self-admiration
- self admirer
- self-admiring
- self-adulation
- self-advancement
- self-advertisement
- self-advertiser
- self-advertising
- self-advocacy
- self-affirmation
- self-aggrandisement
- self-aggrandizement
- self-aggrandizing
- self-alienation
- self-aligning
- self-analysing
- self-analysis
- self-annihilation
- self-appointed
- self-approbation
- self-approval
- self-approving
- self-approvingly