different between pervious vs riddled
pervious
English
Etymology
Latin pervius.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.vi.?s/
- Rhymes: -??(r)vi?s
Adjective
pervious (comparative more pervious, superlative most pervious)
- Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
- Accepting of new ideas.
- 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.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
- (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)
- (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
Antonyms
- impervious
Translations
See also
- permeable
- porous
Anagrams
- previous, viperous
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riddled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???d?ld/
Verb
riddled
- simple past tense and past participle of riddle
Adjective
riddled (comparative more riddled, superlative most riddled)
- Damaged throughout by holes.
- Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
- Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
- The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
- Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
- 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, ?ISBN, page 235:
- They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.
- 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, ?ISBN, page 235:
- Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
Anagrams
- diddler
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