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Permeable synonyms
pûr'mē-ə-bəl
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pervious
Open to arguments, ideas, or change; approachable.
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  1. Open to arguments, ideas, or change; approachable.
  2. Allowing passage through; that can be penetrated or permeated
  3. Open to passage or entrance; permeable.
penetrable
That can be penetrated
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  1. That can be penetrated
  2. Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
  3. Capable of being penetrated:
perforable
Capable of being perforated or penetrated.
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  1. Capable of being perforated or penetrated.
Find another word for permeable. In this page you can discover 4 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for permeable, like: pervious, penetrable, perforable and porous.

Sentence Examples

  • Jacquerod and Perrot have found that quartz-glass is freely permeable to helium below a red-heat (Comet.

  • On the upheaval of such rocks above the sea-level, fresh water from rainfall began to flow over their exposed surfaces, and, so far as the strata were permeable, to lie in their interstices upon the salt water.

  • The crust of the earth, so far as it is permeable and above the sea-level, receives from rainfall its supply of fresh water.

  • The conception of a semi-permeable membrane, permeable to the solvent only, was used by van't Hoff as a means of applying the principles of thermodynamics to the theory of solution.

  • As sodium chloride is one of the most permeable of crystalloids it seems strange that damage to the renal tissue should impede its excretion.

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