Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun absorbent_material

1 sense of absorbent material

Sense 1
absorbent material, absorbent -- (a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance)
       => sorbent, sorbent material -- (a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption)