Standard Lemma guide

liquid

adj · noun · 19 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈlɪk.wɪd/
  • [ˈlɪk.wɪd]
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪkwɪd
  • CMU ARPABET: L IH1 K W AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: L IH1 K W IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: physical

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Examples

  • liquid nitrogen

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, finance

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, finance

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a liquid melody

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences

Examples

  • /l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Fluid and transparent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • the liquid air

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, physical, uncountable

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Examples

  • A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: approximant, consonant

9

adjective

Meaning 9

changed from a solid to a liquid state

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: melted, liquified

Antonyms: none provided

10

adjective

Meaning 10

existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • water and milk and blood are liquid substances

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: solid, gaseous

11

adjective satellite

Meaning 11

clear and bright

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the liquid air of a spring morning
  • eyes shining with a liquid luster
  • limpid blue eyes

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: limpid

Antonyms: none provided

12

adjective satellite

Meaning 12

in cash or easily convertible to cash

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • liquid (or fluid) assets

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fluid

Antonyms: none provided

13

adjective satellite

Meaning 13

smooth and unconstrained in movement

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a long, smooth stride
  • the fluid motion of a cat
  • the liquid grace of a ballerina

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fluent, fluid, smooth

Antonyms: none provided

14

adjective satellite

Meaning 14

smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the liquid song of a robin

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

adjective satellite

Meaning 15

filled or brimming with tears

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • swimming eyes
  • sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: swimming

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: consonant

17

noun

Meaning 17

the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: liquidness, liquidity, liquid state

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: state of matter, state

18

noun

Meaning 18

fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fluid

Narrower terms: artificial blood, elixir, water, H2O, extravasation, instillation, liquid crystal, spill, tuberculin

19

noun

Meaning 19

a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fluid

Narrower terms: beverage, drink, drinkable, potable, water, supernatant, alcohol, ammonia water, ammonia, ammonium hydroxide, antifreeze, distillate, distillation, pyroligneous acid, wood vinegar, medium, ink, grume, liquor, sheep dip, snake oil

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wleykw- Proto-Indo-European *wlikw-éh1-ye-ti Proto-Italic *wlikwēō Latin liqueō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin liquidusbor. Old French liquidebor. Middle English liquide English liquid From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).

Across languages

Translations

241 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: vloeibaar — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Albanian: lëng — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Armenian: հեղուկ (heġuk) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Asturian: líquidu — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Azerbaijani: sıyıq — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Bashkir: шыйыҡ (şıyıq) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Belarusian: ва́дкі (vádki) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Bulgarian: те́чен (téčen) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Catalan: líquid — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Chinese Mandarin: 液體 /液体 (yètǐ) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Chinese Mandarin: 液態 /液态 (yètài) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Crimean Tatar: şingen — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Czech: tekutý — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Czech: kapalný — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Danish: flydende — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Dutch: vloeibaar — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Esperanto: likva — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Estonian: vedel — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Finnish: nestemäinen — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Finnish: neste- — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • French: liquide — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Galician: líquido — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Georgian: თხევადი (txevadi) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • German: flüssig — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Greek: υγρός (ygrós) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Ancient Greek: ῥυτός (rhutós) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Haitian Creole: likid — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Hebrew: נוזלי (nozlí) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Hindi: द्रव (drav) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Hindi: तरल (taral) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Hungarian: folyékony — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Icelandic: fljótandi — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Indonesian: cair — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Interlingua: liquide — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Irish: leachtach — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Italian: liquido — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Ladin: luter — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Latgalian: škeists — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Latvian: šķidrs — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Lithuanian: skystas — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Malay: cair — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Manx: so-eaysley — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Middle English: liquide — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Mongolian: шингэн (šingen) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Norwegian: flytende — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Occitan: liquid — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Plautdietsch: flissent — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Polish: ciekły — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Polish: płynny — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Portuguese: líquido — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Punjabi: ਤਰਲ (taral) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Romanian: lichid — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Russian: жи́дкий (žídkij) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Serbo-Croatian: тѐкӯћӣ — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Serbo-Croatian: жидак — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Serbo-Croatian: tèkūćī — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Serbo-Croatian: žȉdak — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Slovak: tekutý — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Slovene: tekoč — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Spanish: líquido — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Swahili: majimaji — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Swedish: flytande — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Tagalog: likido — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Thai: เหลว (lěeo) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Turkish: sıvı — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Ukrainian: рідки́й (ridkýj) — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Vietnamese: nước — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Vietnamese: lỏng — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Welsh: hylif — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Welsh: hylifol — fluid; not solid and not gaseous
  • Albanian: rrjedhshëm — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Armenian: լիկվիդային (likvidayin) — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Armenian: իրացվելի (iracʻveli) — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Asturian: líquidu — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Bulgarian: ликви́ден (likvíden) — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Catalan: líquid — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Czech: likvidní — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Estonian: likviidne — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Finnish: likvidi — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • French: liquide — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Galician: líquido — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • German: disponibel — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Hebrew: נזיל (nazil) — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Hungarian: likvid — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Icelandic: handbær — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Latvian: likvīds — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Lithuanian: likvidus — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Norwegian: likvid — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Polish: płynny — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Portuguese: líquido — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Romanian: lichid — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Russian: ликви́дный (likvídnyj) — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Serbo-Croatian: ли̏квӣдан — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Serbo-Croatian: lȉkvīdan — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Slovak: likvidné — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Slovene: likviden — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Spanish: líquido — (of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
  • Armenian: իրացվելի (iracʻveli) — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Estonian: likviidne — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Finnish: likvidi — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Icelandic: greiðslufær — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Polish: płynny — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Portuguese: líquido — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Serbo-Croatian: lȉkvīdan — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Slovene: likviden — (of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
  • Afrikaans: vloeistof — substance that is liquid
  • Albanian: lëng — substance that is liquid
  • Arabic: سَائِل (sāʔil) — substance that is liquid
  • Arabic: مَائِع (māʔiʕ) — substance that is liquid
  • Arabic: سايل (sāyil) — substance that is liquid
  • Arabic: مايع (māyiʕ) — substance that is liquid
  • Armenian: հեղուկ (heġuk) — substance that is liquid
  • Assamese: পনীয়া (ponia) — substance that is liquid
  • Assamese: জুলীয়া (zulia) — substance that is liquid
  • Asturian: líquidu — substance that is liquid
  • Azerbaijani: maye — substance that is liquid
  • Azerbaijani: sızağan — substance that is liquid
  • Azerbaijani: cuyuq — substance that is liquid
  • Bashkir: шыйыҡса (şıyıqsa) — substance that is liquid
  • Basque: likido — substance that is liquid
  • Basque: isurkari — substance that is liquid
  • Belarusian: ва́дкасць (vádkascʹ) — substance that is liquid
  • Bengali: তরল (torol) — substance that is liquid
  • Bulgarian: те́чност (téčnost) — substance that is liquid
  • Burmese: အရည် (a.rany) — substance that is liquid
  • Capanahua: jene — substance that is liquid
  • Catalan: líquid — substance that is liquid
  • Chichewa: madzimadzi — substance that is liquid
  • Chinese Cantonese: 液體 /液体 (jik6 tai2) — substance that is liquid
  • Chinese Cantonese: 液態 /液态 (jik6 taai3) — substance that is liquid
  • Chinese: 液體 /液体 (zh-min-nan) — substance that is liquid
  • Chinese Mandarin: 液體 /液体 (yètǐ) — substance that is liquid
  • Chinese Mandarin: 液態 /液态 (yètài) — substance that is liquid
  • Crimean Tatar: şingenlik — substance that is liquid
  • Czech: kapalina — substance that is liquid
  • Czech: tekutina — substance that is liquid
  • Danish: væske — substance that is liquid
  • Duala: madíbádíbá class 6 — substance that is liquid
  • Dutch: vloeistof — substance that is liquid
  • Egyptian: r:Dw-w-Aa2:H_SPACE (rḏw) — substance that is liquid
  • Esperanto: likvaĵo — substance that is liquid
  • Esperanto: likvo — substance that is liquid
  • Estonian: vedelik — substance that is liquid
  • Finnish: neste — substance that is liquid
  • French: liquide — substance that is liquid
  • Galician: líquido — substance that is liquid
  • Georgian: სითხე (sitxe) — substance that is liquid
  • German: Flüssigkeit — substance that is liquid
  • Greek: υγρό (ygró) — substance that is liquid
  • Hebrew: נוֹזֵל (nozél) — substance that is liquid
  • Hindi: द्रव (drav) — substance that is liquid
  • Hindi: तरल (taral) — substance that is liquid
  • Hungarian: folyadék — substance that is liquid
  • Hungarian: lé — substance that is liquid
  • Icelandic: vökvi — substance that is liquid
  • Indonesian: cairan — substance that is liquid
  • Ingrian: nesse — substance that is liquid
  • Irish: leacht — substance that is liquid
  • Italian: liquido — substance that is liquid
  • Japanese: 液体 (ekitai) — substance that is liquid
  • Japanese: 流体 (ryūtai) — substance that is liquid
  • Japanese: リキッド (rikiddo) — substance that is liquid
  • Kazakh: сұйықтық (sūiyqtyq) — substance that is liquid
  • Khmer: រាវ (riəw) — substance that is liquid
  • Korean: 액체 (aekche) — substance that is liquid
  • Northern Kurdish: şile — substance that is liquid
  • Kyrgyz: суюктук (suyuktuk) — substance that is liquid
  • Lao: ທາດແຫຼວ (thāt hrǣu) — substance that is liquid
  • Latin: liquidus — substance that is liquid
  • Latin: latex — substance that is liquid
  • Latvian: šķidrums — substance that is liquid
  • Lithuanian: skystis — substance that is liquid
  • Macedonian: течност (tečnost) — substance that is liquid
  • Malay: cecair — substance that is liquid
  • Malay: cairan — substance that is liquid
  • Malayalam: ദ്രാവകം (drāvakaṁ) — substance that is liquid
  • Middle English: licour — substance that is liquid
  • Mohawk: ohné꞉ka — substance that is liquid
  • Mongolian: шингэн (šingen) — substance that is liquid
  • Norman: litchide — substance that is liquid
  • Norwegian Bokmål: væske — substance that is liquid
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: væske — substance that is liquid
  • Occitan: liquid — substance that is liquid
  • Old English: wæt — substance that is liquid
  • Pashto: مايع (māyé') — substance that is liquid
  • Pashto: چیستکی (čistakáy) — substance that is liquid
  • Persian: مایع (mâye') — substance that is liquid
  • Persian: آبگونه (âbgune) — substance that is liquid
  • Polish: ciecz — substance that is liquid
  • Portuguese: líquido — substance that is liquid
  • Romanian: lichid — substance that is liquid
  • Russian: жи́дкость (žídkostʹ) — substance that is liquid
  • Scottish Gaelic: lionn — substance that is liquid
  • Scottish Gaelic: sùgh — substance that is liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: те̏чно̄ст — substance that is liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: tekùćina — substance that is liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: tȅčnōst — substance that is liquid
  • Sinhalese: දියරය (diyaraya) — substance that is liquid
  • Slovak: tekutina — substance that is liquid
  • Slovak: kvapalina — substance that is liquid
  • Slovene: tekočina — substance that is liquid
  • Spanish: líquido — substance that is liquid
  • Swahili: majimaji — substance that is liquid
  • Swedish: vätska — substance that is liquid
  • Tagalog: likido — substance that is liquid
  • Tajik: моеъ (moye') — substance that is liquid
  • Thai: ของเหลว (kɔ̌ɔng-lěeo) — substance that is liquid
  • Turkish: sıvı — substance that is liquid
  • Turkish: likit — substance that is liquid
  • Turkmen: suwuklyk — substance that is liquid
  • Ukrainian: рідина́ (ridyná) — substance that is liquid
  • Urdu: مائع (mā'i') — substance that is liquid
  • Uyghur: سۇيۇقلۇق (suyuqluq) — substance that is liquid
  • Uzbek: suyuqlik — substance that is liquid
  • Vietnamese: nước — substance that is liquid
  • Vietnamese: chất lỏng — substance that is liquid
  • Welsh: hylif — substance that is liquid
  • Albanian: lëngëtore — sound
  • Dutch: vloeiklank — sound
  • Finnish: likvida — sound
  • French: liquide — sound
  • Galician: líquida — sound
  • German: Fließlaut — sound
  • German: Liquida — sound
  • German: Liquid — sound
  • Icelandic: mjúkhljóð — sound
  • Indonesian: likuida — sound
  • Italian: liquida — sound
  • Latvian: plūdenis — sound
  • Romanian: lichidă — sound
  • Russian: пла́вный звук (plávnyj zvuk) — sound
  • Serbo-Croatian: ликвида — sound
  • Serbo-Croatian: lìkvida — sound
  • Serbo-Croatian: tèkūćnīk — sound
  • Serbo-Croatian: desnik — sound
  • Serbo-Croatian: alveolar — sound
  • Slovene: likvida — sound
  • Spanish: líquida — sound
  • Thai: พยัญชนะเหลว — sound
  • Welsh: toddyn — sound
  • Welsh: cytsain dawdd — sound
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