liquescent

American  

[li-kwes-uhnt] / lɪˈkwɛs ənt /

adjective

1. becoming liquid; melting.

2. tending toward a liquid state.

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liquescent British  

/ lɪˈkwɛsənt /

adjective

1. (of a solid or gas) becoming or tending to become liquid

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Other Word Forms

• liquescence noun
• unliquescent adjective

Etymology

Origin of liquescent

1720–30; < Latin liquēscent- (stem of liquēscēns ), present participle of liquēscere to melt. See liquid, -escent

Example Sentences

From his text sculptures of seemingly liquescent glass to drawings executed in beads and thread, the artist celebrates the increasingly antique charms of introspection, whimsy, fragile romance, and cosmic wonder.

From Architectural Digest • Nov. 7, 2014

Rather than lurking at the bottom of the screen, they reflect the action by gliding on and off screen at different angles, exploding in puffs of smoke and melting into liquescent pools.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2010

Fitzpiers did not stay more than an hour, but that time had apparently advanced his sentiments towards Grace, once and for all, from a vaguely liquescent to an organic shape.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

Adj. liquefied &c. v., liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble, colliquative†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

From the whole, soft, liquescent fluid scene, the impression which I derived was melancholy.

From Through Russia by Hogarth, C. J.