adjective
- Like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness.
- synonyms: pulpy
- Of soil. ( soft and watery)
- usage: "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
- Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility.
- usage: "spongy bread"
- synonyms: spongy, squishy, spongelike
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