Word info Synonyms Antonyms

soluble

Adjective

Meaning

Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.

Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.

Relaxed; open or readily opened.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Related terms

Phrases with the word

Examples

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. Peter Medawar

Nacreous pearl light swam faintly about the hem of the lilac darkness; the edges of light and darkness were stitched upon the hills. Morning moved like a pearl-gray tide across the fields and up the hillflanks, flowing rapidly down into the soluble dark. Thomas Wolfe

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas. Crescent Dragonwagon

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble. David Deutsch

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. Martin Luther King Jr.

Close letter words and terms