Deliquescent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /diˈlɪkwəsənt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Deliquescent is an adjective meaning Seeming to melt away.
Meaning
Seeming to melt away.
More Meanings
- (physical chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.
- (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
- (mycology, of the fruiting body of a fungus) Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
Example Sentences
deliquescent salts
[…] Manet painted him [ Stéphane Mallarmé ] in a boneless, deliquescent slouch;
“Any one who stands outside, who hides himself in a deliquescent aloofness, is a sneak and a spy—”
[…] dew fell in sufficient quantity to make the streets muddy, and it would certainly have washed so deliquescent a substance as salt into the soil.
Synonyms for deliquescent
Depending on context, synonyms include melting, disappearing, hydrophilic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hydrophilic, melty, contabescent, detumescent, semidecaying, adepescent.
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