WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
spongelike adj 1: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread" [syn: spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike] 2: like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed [syn: spongy, spongelike]