pervious
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɜː.vi.əs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɝ.vi.əs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)viəs
Adjective edit
pervious (comparative more pervious, superlative most pervious)
- Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
- a pervious soil
- 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 37:
- Not leſs in Number vvere the ſpacious Doors, / Than Leaves on Trees, or Sands upon the Shores; / VVhich ſtill unfolded ſtand, by Night, by Day, / Pervious to VVinds, and open ev'ry vvay.
- Accepting of new ideas.
- Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper:
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
- (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- What is this little , agile , pervious fire […] ?
- (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
Antonyms edit
Translations edit
capable of being penetrated