Spongy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPONGY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• absorptive
• like a sponge, especially in being porous, compressible, or absorbent
• (of metal) having an open, porous structure
• of or resembling a sponge
• Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
• Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
• Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
• easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
• like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
• (chiefly of a motor vehicle's braking system) lacking firmness.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• resembling a sponge

Words related to SPONGY

fozy19 spongeous12 spongier11 spongiest12 spongily14 sponginess13

How to use SPONGY in a sentence

• The hair, though rather coarse, is comfortably soft and spongy, and lies smooth, as if carefully tended with comb and brush.
• It may be described as composed of wet, spongy black earth, held together by decayed vegetables.
• The surface of the ground in the Maine woods is everywhere spongy and saturated with moisture.
• Animals with spongy feet are unfit for long journeys on hard roads.
• The dinner finished, Mary cleared the wooden dishes while Jim brought heaps of the dry, spongy sea grass and made a bed in the tent.
• The noble forest trees of the lower mountains, as you go up, give way to an exuberant but spongy growth of tree-ferns and bushes.
• Shortly after the discovery of the peculiar property of spongy platinum remaining incandescent in the vapor of alcohol, the late Mr.
• Only their fingers were loose beneath the spongy substance to work arm controls.
• THE LUNGS The lungs are spongy bodies which have no activity of their own beyond a little elasticity.
• Gilbert trudged through this spongy support, all but losing his balance occasionally.
• The bones are light and spongy, and the spine particularly flexible, from the amount of cartilage between the bones.
• For the space of half a mile Dick Sand and his companions must march over this spongy soil.
• There are within the body of the brush several clear spots, where the ground is partly rocky or sandy, partly wet and spongy.
• Why are the lungs light, spongy and full of holes? A.
• It is known that a spongy, velvety flesh is procured from a certain mushroom of the genus polyporous.
• The cake, when the flour is all in, should be stiff and spongy.
• The new comer, not cautious to secure a sure footing would sometimes sink deep in the soft mud or even disappear in the spongy earth.
• The foot may sink in it to the knee, but as soon as the pressure is removed it rises again with spongy elasticity, and no trace is left of the step.
• It is then baked in circular cakes, which are white, spongy, and of a hot acid taste, but easy of digestion.
• Our trail led us at first through a natural meadow, overgrown with waist-high grass, and very spongy to the tread.
• Then the frog of his foot expands and grows spongy, so that he can cling to the mountain-side like a goat, or move silently over the dead leaves.

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