Word Meanings - PERVIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds. (more info) 1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil. . . . pervious to winds, and open every

Additional info about word: PERVIOUS

Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds. (more info) 1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil. . . . pervious to winds, and open every way. Pope. 2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. Jer. Taylor. 3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. Prior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERVIOUS)

• Penetrable
• Pervious
• permeable
• Porous
• Foraminous
• pervious
• percolable

Related words: (words related to PERVIOUS)

• FORAMINOUS
  Having foramina; full of holes; porous. Bacon.
• POROUSNESS
  1. The quality of being porous. 2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby.
• PENETRABLE
  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.
• PERVIOUS
  Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds. (more info) 1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil. . . . pervious to winds, and open every
• PERMEABLE
  Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light. I. Taylor.
• PERVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. Boyle.
• POROUS
  Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton.
• POROUSLY
  In a porous manner.
• POLYSPOROUS
  Containing many spores.
• IMPENETRABLENESS
  The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
• HETEROSPORIC; HETEROSPOROUS
  Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.
• UNPENETRABLE
  Impenetrable.
• THECASPOROUS
  Having the spores in thecæ, or cases.
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• ENDOSPOROUS
  Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.
• SAPOROUS
  Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. Bailey.
• IMPENETRABLE
  Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time. 3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or
• ISOSPOROUS
  Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns.
• IMPOROUS
  Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid. Sir T. Browne.
• VAPOROUSNESS
  The quality of being vaporous.
• ACROSPOROUS
  Having acrospores.
• ANGIOSPOROUS
  Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi.