Bibulous
121spongy — a. 1. Porous, spongeous. 2. Wet, rainy, showery. 3. Drenched, saturated, soaked, wet. 4. Bibulous, absorbent …
122motive# — motive n 1 Motive, spring, impulse, incentive, inducement, spur, goad all denote a stimulus inciting or prompting a person to act or behave in a definite way. Motive applies chiefly to such an emotion as fear, anger, hatred, or love or to a… …
123absorbent — adj porous, spongy, spongiose, Rare. spongious, permeable, pervious; retentive, absorptive, Physical Chem. adsorbent; thirsty, bibbing, bibulous, imbibitory; recipient, receptive, assimilative, digestive; soaking, blotting, sponging, absorbing,… …
124epicurean — adj 1. sybaritic, sensual, carnal, voluptuous; orgiastic, wild, unrestrained; self indulgent, intemperate, free living, Saturnalian. 2. dissolute, licentious, libertine, lascivious, debauched, dissipated, wasted; concupiscent, prurient,… …
125intemperate — adj 1. drunken, sottish, Inf. boozy, Sl. pifficated, Sl. pie eyed; alcoholic, dipsomaniacal, 589 bibulous, bibacious; intoxicated, inebriated, Rare. inebrious; winebibbing, oenomaniacal, Sl. wino; Bacchanalian. See alsodrunk. 2. licentious,… …
126porous — adj 1. spongy, spongelike, absorbent, bibulous; sievelike, cribrose, cribriform; riddled, perforated, honeycombed, like Swiss cheese. 2. permeable, pervious, penetrable, passable …
127spongy — adj 1. light, lightweight; porous, holey, sievelike, loose, incompact; yielding, compressible, flexible, resilient, springy. 2. absorbent, absorbing, bibulous; soft, mushy, squashy, pulpy, pithy, Bot. fleshy; squishy, wet, damp, moist, oozy;… …
128-ulous — a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, with the meaning “inclined to do, habitually engaging in” the action specified by the initial element: bibulous; credulous[/ex] • Etymology: < L ulus, ula, ulum …
