Meaning of PERVIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'purveeus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat" |
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| | Synonyms: | | receptive |
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| | Antonyms: | | imperviable, impervious | | |
| | See Also: | | permeable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Per"vi*ous\, a. [L. pervis; per + via a way. See
{Per-}, and {Voyage}.]
1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another
body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way.
--Pope.
2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical
or mental vision. [R.]
God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. --Jer.
Taylor.
3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] --Prior.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as
applied to the nostrils or birds.
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| | Related Terms: | | accessible, amenable, approachable, attainable, available, come-at-able, excretory, exudative, findable, getatable, gettable, impressionable, influenceable, leaky, malleable, movable, obtainable, oozy, open, open to, openable, open-minded, penetrable, percolative, permeable, persuadable, persuasible, plastic, pliable, pliant, porose, porous, procurable, reachable, receptive, responsive, runny, securable, suasible, suggestible, susceptible, swayable, to be had, transudative, weak, weepy, within reach |
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