| Pronunciation: | | 'sâlyubul
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| Matching Terms: | | soluble fiber, soluble glass, soluble rna, solubleness
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- [adj] (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water)
- [adj] susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained; "the puzzle is soluble"
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| | Synonyms: | | answerable, disintegrable, dissoluble, dissolvable, meltable, resolvable, solvable, water-soluble |
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| | Antonyms: | | insoluble |
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| | See Also: | | explicable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire.
--Arbuthnot.
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.
3. Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] ``The bowels must be
kept soluble.'' --Dunglison.
{Soluble glass}. (Chem.) See under {Glass}.
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