pervious
Adjective
- Open or susceptible to passage or penetration; permeable.
- admitting of passage or entrance
- "pervious soil"
- "a metal pervious to heat"
Adj
- Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or substance, such as air or water; admitting passage.
- Capable of being seen through; open to being examined; patent, unconcealed.
- Capable of being penetrated mentally; intelligible, understandable.
- Of a person, etc.: susceptible to being influenced by arguments, ideas, etc.; impressionable, tractable.
- Capable of penetrating or permeating.
- Of a body structure (especially the nostril of a bird): having a hole, perforate; also, wide open.
Examples
- a pervious soil
- His PERVIOUS defense allowed his opponent to score big on multiple occasions.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pervius (“having a passage through; passable, penetrable, traversable”) + English -ous (suffix denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Pervius is derived from per- (prefix denoting doing something all the way through or entirely) + via (“road, street; method, way; (figurative) course, route”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives)
Synonyms
penetrable, permeable, perspicuous, pervading, perviable, transparent
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
pervious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpervious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pervious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary