pervious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: per=vi=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

pervious, a. [L. pervis; per + via a way. See Per-, and Voyage.].

•  Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.  [1913 Webster]

  "[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way."  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.  [1913 Webster]

  "God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye."  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of penetrating or pervading.  Prior.  [1913 Webster]
•  Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pervious, adj.
1 permeable.
2 (usu. foll. by to) a affording passage. b accessible (to reason etc.).

Derivative

perviousness n.

Etymology

L pervius (as PER-, vius f. via way)

THESAURUS

pervious

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

ROGET THESAURUS

pervious

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.