Pervasive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pervasive \Per*va"sive\ (p[~e]r*v[=a]"s[i^]v), a.
     Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of
     a pervading quality. "Civilization pervasive and general."
     --M. Arnold.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pervasive
       adj 1: spread throughout; "a pervasive anxiety overshadows the
              triumphs of individuals" [syn: {pervading}]
       2: spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he
          punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic";
          "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one
          conclusion" [syn: {permeant}, {permeating}, {permeative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pervasive":
     absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
     born, broad-based, clean, clear, comprehensive, congenital,
     consummate, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious,
     exhaustive, general, inescapable, intensive, omnibus, omnipresent,
     out-and-out, outright, penetrating, perfect, permeating,
     permeative, pervading, plain, plumb, prevalent, pure, radical,
     regular, sheer, straight, suffusing, suffusive, sweeping, thorough,
     thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous,
     unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved,
     unrestricted, utter, veritable, wholesale, widespread