About The Word Pervious
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Pervious
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What's The Definition Of Pervious?
[adj] admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pervious: receptive Related Terms | Find terms related to Pervious: accessible | amenable | approachable | attainable | available | come-at-able | excretory | exudative | findable | getatable | gettable | impressionable | influenceable | leaky | malleable | movable | obtainable | oozy | open | open to | openable | open-minded | 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 See Also | permeable Pervious In Webster's Dictionary \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.
[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way.
--Pope.
2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical
or mental vision. [R.]
God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. --Jer.
Taylor.
3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] --Prior.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as
applied to the nostrils or birds.
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