soluble

From Middle English soluble, from Old French soluble, from Late Latin solūbilis, from Latin solvere (“to loosen”) +‎ -bilis.^[1] Piecewise doublet of solvable.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒljʊbəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑljəbəl/

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soluble (comparative more soluble, superlative most soluble)

1. (chemistry) Able to be dissolved.

   Synonyms: dissolvable, dissoluble

   Antonym: insoluble

   Sugar is soluble in water.

   • 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:

     The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.

2. Able to be solved or explained.

   Synonym: solvable

   Antonym: insoluble

   That mystery should be easily soluble.

• boulles, lobules

Borrowed from Latin solūbilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [suˈlub.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈlu.ble]

soluble m or f (masculine and feminine plural solubles)

1. soluble

   Antonym: insoluble

• hidrosoluble
• solubilitat

• “soluble”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “soluble”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “soluble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “soluble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Late Latin solubilis, from Latin solvere.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.lybl/

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soluble (plural solubles)

1. soluble (that can be dissolved)

   Antonym: insoluble

   soluble dans l'eau ― water-soluble

   café soluble ― instant coffee

2. solvable (that can be solved)

   Synonym: résoluble

   Antonym: insoluble

• liposoluble

• solubilité
• solvable

• “soluble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin solubilis.

• IPA^(key): /soˈluble/ [soˈlu.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -uble
• Syllabification: so‧lu‧ble

soluble m or f (masculine and feminine plural solubles)

1. soluble

• “soluble”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024