HyperDic: pervious

English > 1 sense of the word pervious:
ADJECTIVEallperviousadmitting of passage / passage or entrance
English > pervious: 1 sense > adjective 1
MeaningAdmitting of passage / passage or entrance.
Examples
  • "pervious soil"
  • "a metal pervious to heat"
Narrowerreceptiveopen to arguments, ideas, or change
See alsopermeableAllowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through
Oppositeimpervious, imperviablenot admitting of passage / passage or capable of being affected
Spanishpermeable
Catalanpermeable
Nounsperviousnessthe quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)

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