Pervious

//ˈpɜː.vɪ.əs//

Synonyms for "pervious" (55 found)

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Closest matches (11)

receptive accessible amenable approachable attainable available come-at-able excretory exudative

Adjective(2 words)

Strong matches (17)

findable getatable gettable impressionable influenceable leaky malleable movable obtainable oozy open open minded open to open-minded openable penetrable

Adjective(1 words)

penetrable

Related words (27)

percolative permeable persuadable persuasible plastic pliable pliant porose porous procurable reachable responsive runny securable suasible suggestible susceptible swayable to be had transudative

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weak weepy within reach

Adjective(4 words)

permeable pervading perviable porous

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Antonyms

2 entries

impervious

Related terms

1 entries

perviable

derived

9 entries

perveance perviousity perviously perviousness semipervious semiperviousness unpervious unperviously unperviousness

has context

1 entries

zoology

related to

11 entries

bird mental nostril open passage penetrate perforate permeable physical porous vision

similar

3 entries

permeable receptive

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

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Near-synonym: porous

Source: wiktionary

a pervious soil

Source: wiktionary

If looking up to God, or dovvne to us, / Thou finde that any vvay is pervious, / Tvvixt heav'n and earth, […]

Source: wiktionary

[N]otvvithſtanding the exſuction of the Air, our Receiver may not be deſtitute of all Bodies, ſince any thing placed in it, may be ſeen there; vvhich vvould not be, if it vvere not pervious to thoſe Beams of Light vvhich rebounding from the ſeen Object to our eyes, affect us vvith the ſenſe of it: […]

Source: wiktionary

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