Antonyms for penetrative

Grammar : Adj

Spell : pen-i-trey-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn ɪˌtreɪ tɪv

Definition of penetrative

As in insightful : adj perceptive
As in penetrating : adj intelligent
As in perceptive : adj alert, sensitive
As in quick-witted : adj smart
As in sharp : adj perceptive, quick-witted

Example sentences :

A penetrative word or a heroic gesture might lose them the day.
Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley

The pleading was crafty, and it was penetrative in the avoidance of stress.
Extract from : « The Amazing Marriage, Complete » by George Meredith

She had at this another, but a sharper, of her penetrative pauses.
Extract from : « The Shadow of Life » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Hence the afterthought of the decorative but penetrative ironwork.
Extract from : « The Old Inns of Old England, Volume I (of 2) » by Charles G. Harper

As a critic he was penetrative, comprehensive, and impartial.
Extract from : « A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations » by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

You feel, with regard to the foregoing criticism, that it is as just as it is penetrative.
Extract from : « French Classics » by William Cleaver Wilkinson

Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
Extract from : « Babbitt » by Sinclair Lewis

While speaking, he still bent his penetrative eye upon them, nor withdrew it till they had reached the bottom of the stairs.
Extract from : « The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was a womans voice, rather low, but with a penetrative quality in it: a peculiar voice, both in timbre and intonation.
Extract from : « Dust » by Julian Hawthorne

After a series of penetrative flashes, flattering to her intelligence the more startling they were, reflection was exhausted.
Extract from : « Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete » by George Meredith

Synonyms for penetrative

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