hygroscopic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: hy=gro=scop=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

hygroscopic, a. [Cf. F. hygroscopique.].

•  Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hygroscopic, adj.
1 of the hygroscope.
2 (of a substance) tending to absorb moisture from the air.

Derivative

hygroscopically adv.