Synonyms for liquid
- adjective
- noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- adj. 2
Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- adj. 3
Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- n. 1
A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- liquids → liquidities, fluids, liquors…
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All liquids are fluids, but not all fluids are liquids; air and all the gases are fluids, but they are not liquids under ordinary circumstances, tho capable of being reduced to a liquid form by special means, as by cold and pressure. Water at the ordinary temperature is at once a fluid and a liquid.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- flowing As long as the champagne is flowing, Tom is happy.
- watery It was watery soup spiced with pepper and rancid oil.
- runny This medicine will do wonders for a runny nose.
By length
- 4 letters
- soft1
- 5 letters
- clear1, fluid2, runny2, flowy
- 6 letters
- mobile2, smooth1, liquor2, melted2, fluent2, molten2, watery3, limpid
- 7 letters
- running2, flowing2, fluidic, fluxive
- 8 letters
- cashable
- 9 letters
- liquidity4, liquefied3
- 10 letters
- liquidness
- 11 letters
- mellifluous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fluid2 = 2 syllables).