Meaning of PENETRABLE
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- [adj] admitting of penetration or passage into or through; "a penetrable wall"; "penetrable defenses"
- [adj] capable of being penetrated; "penetrable defenses"
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pen"e*tra*ble\, a. [L. penetrabilus: cf. F.
p['e]n['e]trable.]
Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also
figuratively.
And pierce his only penetrable part. --Dryden.
I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind
entreats. --Shak.
-- {Pen"e*tra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Pen"e*tra*bly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | accessible, apprehensible, approachable, articulate, assailable, attackable, attainable, available, beatable, cognizable, come-at-able, comprehensible, conquerable, easily understood, easy to understand, exoteric, expugnable, fathomable, findable, getatable, gettable, intelligible, knowable, obtainable, open, open to, openable, permeable, pervious, plumbable, porose, porous, pregnable, prehensible, procurable, reachable, readable, scrutable, securable, surmountable, to be had, understandable, vincible, vulnerable, weak, within reach |
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