Word Meanings - ABSORBENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground , a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABSORBENT)

• Voracious
• Hungry
• absorbent
• ravenous
• rapacious
• insatiate
• omnivorous
• gormandizing

Related words: (words related to ABSORBENT)

• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• GORMANDIZE
  To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.
• RAPACIOUS
  1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a
• GORMANDIZER
  A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.
• OMNIVOROUS
  All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. , eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n.
• ABSORBENT
  Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground , a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
• INSATIATE
  Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.
• INSATIATELY
  Insatiably. Sir T. Herbert.
• INSATIATENESS
  The state of being insatiate.
• VORACIOUS
  Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.
• INTRAVENOUS
  Within the veins.