Pervious

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)viÉ™s

Origin

Latin pervis.

Full definition of pervious

Adjective

1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.a pervious soil
• Alexander PopeDoors ... pervious to winds, and open every way.
2. Accepting of new ideas.
3. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
• God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
4. (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
5. (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

Antonyms

• impervious

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