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pervious

English

Etymology

Latin pervius.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.vi.?s/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)vi?s

Adjective

pervious (comparative more pervious, superlative most pervious)

  1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
  2. Accepting of new ideas.
  3. 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.
  4. (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)
  5. (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

Antonyms

  • impervious

Translations

See also

  • permeable
  • porous

Anagrams

  • previous, viperous

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lacy

English

Etymology

From lace +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?le?.si/

Adjective

lacy (comparative lacier, superlative laciest)

  1. Made of lace or decorated with it.
    lacy lingerie
  2. Looking like lace.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Clay, acyl, clay

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