Pervious

Quick meaning: Pervious is an adjective meaning Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or substance, such as air or water; admitting passage.

Meaning

Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or substance, such as air or water; admitting passage.

More Meanings

1. Capable of being seen through; open to being examined; patent, unconcealed.
2. Capable of being penetrated mentally; intelligible, understandable.
3. Of a person, etc.: susceptible to being influenced by arguments, ideas, etc.; impressionable, tractable.
4. Capable of penetrating or permeating.
5. Of a body structure (especially the nostril of a bird): having a hole, perforate; also, wide open.

Example Sentences

a pervious soil

Near-synonym: porous

Svvift on the regal dome deſcending right, / The bolted Valves are pervious to her flight.

Every Country is pervious to a vviſe man; for the vvhole vvorld is the Country of a vviſe ſoul.

Synonyms for pervious

Depending on context, synonyms include penetrable, permeable, porous, perspicuous, transparent, pervading.

Antonyms for pervious

Common opposites include impervious, impenetrable, impermeable, unpervious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include receptive, preceding, previous, earlier, urachus, permeable.

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