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# spongy

«spongy» in Mova's school dictionary: **soft, squashy and full of tiny holes, like a sponge, so…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (spongy, spongier, spongiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spongy means soft, squashy and full of tiny holes, like a sponge, so it springs back when pressed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#m1)

2) Spongy can describe ground that is soft and wet, or something that has too much give, like spongy brakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and food lessons, cakes are spongy because air bubbles get trapped; bones have spongy inner parts; moss and marsh ground feel spongy. In materials lessons, pupils describe materials as spongy, hard, rigid or flexible. In everyday life a spongy cake is light and soft.

### examples

- The cake was light and spongy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#x1)
- Moss feels spongy under your feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#x2)
- The inside of a bone is spongy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#x3)
- The ground near the river was spongy and wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#x4)
- Bread dough becomes spongy as it rises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#x5)
- The old mattress was too spongy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#x6)
- The old beams had become worm-eaten and spongy--they lay in dust and ashes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/#x7)

### note

Comparatives: spongier, spongiest. Adjective from sponge. Not used for people, except in jokes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spongy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spongy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.