From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spongy \Spon"gy\ (sp[u^]n"j[y^]), adjective
1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. ''Spongy April.'' --Shak.
3. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
{Spongy lead} (Chem.), sponge lead. See under {Sponge}.
{Spongy platinum}. See under {Platinum}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread" [syn: {squashy}, {squishy}, {spongelike}]
2: like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed [syn: {spongelike}] [also: {spongiest}, {spongier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "spongy": absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, baccate, bibulous, blotting, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, cribriform, digestive, doughy, edematous, endosmotic, exosmotic, flabby, fleshy, imbibitory, leachy, macerated, masticated, medullary, mushy, osmotic, pappy, pasty, percolating, pithy, porose, porous, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, puppy, quaggy, resorbent, sievelike, soaking, soft, sorbent, spongelike, spongeous, squashy, squelchy, squishy, succulent, thirsty, yielding
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