Pervious

3 definitions found

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

  Pervious \Per"vi*ous\, a. [L. pervis; per + via a way. See
     {Per-}, and {Voyage}.]
     1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another
        body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
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              [Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way.
                                                    --Pope.
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     2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical
        or mental vision. [R.]
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              God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. --Jer.
                                                    Taylor.
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     3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] --Prior.
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     4. (Zool.) Open; -- used synonymously with {perforate}, as
        applied to the nostrils or birds.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pervious
       adj : admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal
             pervious to heat" [ant: {impervious}]

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

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "pervious":
     accessible, amenable, approachable, attainable, available,
     come-at-able, excretory, exudative, findable, getatable, gettable,
     impressionable, influenceable, leaky, malleable, movable,
     obtainable, oozy, open, open to, open-minded, openable, penetrable,
     percolative, permeable, persuadable, persuasible, plastic, pliable,
     pliant, porose, porous, procurable, reachable, receptive,
     responsive, runny, securable, suasible, suggestible, susceptible,
     swayable, to be had, transudative, weak, weepy, within reach