noun
- A substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure.
- The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility.
- synonyms: liquidness, liquidity, liquid state
- Fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume.
- A frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r'. )
adjective
- Existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow.
- usage: "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"
- Filled or brimming with tears.
- usage: "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
- synonyms: swimming
- Clear and bright.
- usage: "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"
- synonyms: limpid
- Changed from a solid to a liquid state.
- usage: "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"
- Smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness.
- usage: "the liquid song of a robin"
- Smooth and unconstrained in movement.
- usage: "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"
- In cash or easily convertible to cash.
- usage: "liquid (or fluid) assets"
- synonyms: fluid
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