modified
porous, absorptive, spongy, permeable, dry, soft, pervious, pregnable, assimilative, imbibing, penetrable, receptive, retentive, spongiose, thirsty.
Antonyms impermeable, impervious, solid.
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Having a capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up:
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