Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
(of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water);
2.
susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained;
- Example: "the puzzle is soluble"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soluble \Sol"u*ble\, a. [L. solubilis, fr. solvere, solutum, to
loosen, to dissolve: cf. F. soluble. See Solve, and cf.
Solvable.]
1. Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of
solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which
are not soluble in water.
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Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire.
--Arbuthnot.
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2. Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic
problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or
explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. "More
soluble is this knot." --Tennyson.
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3. Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] "The bowels must be
kept soluble." --Dunglison.
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Soluble glass. (Chem.) See under Glass.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
soluble
adj 1: (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some
solvent (usually water) [ant: indissoluble,
insoluble]
2: susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained; "the
puzzle is soluble" [ant: insoluble]