Porous Synonyms and Antonyms

pôrəs
Absorbent
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. poriferous
  2. leachy
  3. sievelike
Antonyms:
  1. compact
  2. imporous
  3. impermeable
  4. nonporous
Allowing passage in and out
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. permeable
  2. penetrable
  3. pervious
  4. absorbent
  5. leaky
  6. acceptable
  7. holey
  8. percolable
  9. pory
  10. spongy

Words Related to Porous

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. granular
  2. microporous
  3. clay-like
  4. viscous
  5. non-porous
  6. wear-resistant
  7. compressible
  8. shrinkable

Porous Sentence Examples

  • The porous soil absorbs the moisture, and fresh water is scarce.

  • Porous carbon blocks, made by strongly heating a mixture of powdered charcoal with oil, resin, &c., were introduced about a generation later, and subsequently various preparations of iron (spongy iron, magnetic oxide) found favour.

  • Thus, while the mineral may be formed in a stratum other than that in which it is found, though in many cases it is indigenous to it, for the formation of a natural reservoir of the fluid (whether liquid or gas) it is necessary that there should be a suitable porous rock to contain it.

  • The main requisites for a productive oil or gas field are a porous reservoir and an impervious cover.

  • If, however, no porous division be used to prevent the intermingling by diffusion of the anode and cathode solutions, a complicated set of subsidiary reactions takes place.

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