spongy.

Soft, porous, or yielding under pressure like a sponge.

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Words that belong together

• spongy ground
• a spongy texture

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Spongy ground depressed beneath each step.

The spongy texture gave way without the brittle sound she expected.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: spongy; comparative spongier; superlative spongiest. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.