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springy
Having many springs of water
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  1. Having many springs of water
  2. Marked by resilience; elastic.
  3. That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.
porous
Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices.
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  1. Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices.
  2. Easily crossed or penetrated:
  3. Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
mushy
Soft; squishy
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  1. Soft; squishy
  2. Like mush; thick, soft, and yielding
  3. Resembling mush in consistency or firmness; soft:
pappy
Of or resembling pap; mushy.
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  1. Of or resembling pap; mushy.
  2. Like pap; soft; succulent; tender.
pulpy
Of or like pulp
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  1. Of or like pulp
quaggy
Resembling a marsh; soggy.
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  1. Resembling a marsh; soggy.
  2. Like a quagmire; boggy; soft and miry
  3. Soft and flabby.
soft
Easily molded, cut, or worked:
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  1. Easily molded, cut, or worked:
  2. Not stern; lenient:
  3. Voiced and weakly articulated:
squashy
Easily squashed or crushed, as overripe fruit
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  1. Easily squashed or crushed, as overripe fruit
  2. Easily squashed when pressed
  3. Overripe and soft; pulpy.
squishy
Soft and pliable; yielding to pressure
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  1. Soft and pliable; yielding to pressure
  2. (Of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud.
  3. Soft; spongy.
yielding
Producing a good yield; productive
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  1. Producing a good yield; productive
  2. Bending easily; flexible
  3. Inclined to give way to pressure, argument, or influence; docile.
Find another word for spongy. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for spongy, like: springy, like a sponge, porous, wet, mushy, pappy, pulpous, pulpy, quaggy, soft and squashy.

Sentence Examples

  • Has light grey or brown close thick wool half an inch deep without any top hair, with a rather thick spongy pelt.

  • Dobereiner discovered the combination of SO 2 and 0 into SO 3 by means of spongy platinum.

  • Moreover, unless the conditions are closely watched, it is liable to be thrown down in a spongy form.

  • After death from chronic poisoning it is found present even in the brain and spongy bone.

  • intralamellar spongy growth becomes, the more do the original gillfilaments lose the character of blood-holding tubes, and tend to become dense elastic rods for the simple purpose of supporting the spongy growth.

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