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PERVIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pervious mean?
• PERVIOUS (adjective)
The adjective PERVIOUS has 1 sense:
1. admitting of passage or entrance
Familiarity information: PERVIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Admitting of passage or entrance
Context example:
a metal pervious to heat
Similar:
receptive (open to arguments, ideas, or change)
Also:
permeable (allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through)
Antonym:
impervious (not admitting of passage or capable of being affected)
Derivation:
perviousness (the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.))
Context examples
When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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