Near-synonym: porous
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Pervious
/ˈpɜː.vɪ.əs/
Synonyms for "pervious" (56 found)
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Noun(1 words)
permeable membrane
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More general
1 entriesphysical property
More specific
2 entriespermeable membraneporous rock
Collocations
5 entrieshighly perviouspervious layerpervious membranepervious to airpervious to water
Inflections
2 entriesmore perviousmost pervious
Derivations
1 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
2 entriesSample sentences
17 total sentences available.
a pervious soil
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If looking up to God, or dovvne to us, / Thou finde that any vvay is pervious, / Tvvixt heav'n and earth, […]
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[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: […]
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