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From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“‘absorb’”).

Absorbent (comparative more Absorbent, superlative most Absorbent)

Positive
Absorbent

Comparative
more Absorbent

Superlative
most Absorbent

absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive.
Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.

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absorbent ground (painting) a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliance is imparted to the colors.
nonabsorbent

absorbing

Singular
Absorbent

Plural
Absorbents

Absorbent (plural Absorbents)

Anything which absorbs.
- The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat. — Charles Darwin
(medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
(physiology, pluralized) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.