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Soluble

//ˈsɒljʊbəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be dissolved.

    "Sugar is soluble in water."

  2. 2
    Able to be solved or explained.

    "That mystery should be easily soluble."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) wordnet
  2. 2
    susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English soluble, from Old French soluble, from Late Latin solūbilis, from Latin solvere (“to loosen”) + -bilis. Piecewise doublet of solvable.

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