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Per´vi`ous
a.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.
God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
- Jer. Taylor.
3.Capable of penetrating or pervading.
4.(Zool.) Open; - used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
Adj.1.pervious - admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat"
Antonyms:
imperviable, impervious - not admitting of passage or capable of being affected; "a material impervious to water"; "someone impervious to argument"
accessible, amenable, approachable, attainable, available, come-at-able, excretory, exudative, findable, getatable, gettable, impressionable, influenceable, leaky, malleable, movable, obtainable, oozy, open, open to, open-minded, openable, 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

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