Synonyms for penetrable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pen-i-truh-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn ɪ trə bəl |
Définition of penetrable
Origin :- early 15c., "penetrating," from Latin penetrabilis "penetrable, vulnerable," from penetrare (see penetrate). Meaning "capable of being penetrated" is attested from 1530s; figurative use by 1590s. Related: Penetrability.
- adj permeable
- Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to superstition.
- Extract from : « Waverley » by Sir Walter Scott
- Actually, he had placed his soldiers in a most penetrable trap.
- Extract from : « Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia » by Dorothy M. Torpey
- The one penetrable point in his ironclad nature had not been reached yet.
- Extract from : « Heart and Science » by Wilkie Collins
- If it is nothing, nothing can have no quality; yet you tell me that it is penetrable and immense.
- Extract from : « A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 6 (of 10) » by Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
- The lady had seen much of foreign life—had travelled in every penetrable country, and her wealth seemed as great as her beauty.
- Extract from : « Fashion and Famine » by Ann S. Stephens
- The skin is, in some parts, so thick and hard as scarcely to be penetrable by the sharpest sabre, or even by a musket-ball.
- Extract from : « The Book of Curiosities » by I. Platts
- The thoughtless objection about the only penetrable points is, I hope, swept aside forever.
- Extract from : « More Hunting Wasps » by J. Henri Fabre
- But this is not how you understand the matter: you mean accessible to the sting, in a word, penetrable.
- Extract from : « More Hunting Wasps » by J. Henri Fabre
- Before calcination it is of a grey colour, is not penetrable by water, and takes a polish.
- Extract from : « Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) » by James Hutton
- The penetrable gloom there, and the growing apprehension concerning the countess and Nevil, tore her to pieces.
- Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith
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