Antonyms for porous
ˈpɔr əs, ˈpoʊr-por·ous

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1. porousadjective

   Synonyms:
   permeable

2. porousadjective

   Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.

   Synonyms:
   permeable

3. porousadjective

   (Of legislation) full of loopholes

   Synonyms:
   permeable

4. porousadjective

   With many gaps.

   Synonyms:
   permeable

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. porous

   Antonyms:
   impervious, impermeable, impercolable

   Synonyms:
   foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. porousadjective

   able to absorb fluids

   "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

   Antonyms:
   nonporous, impermeable, tight

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

2. porous, poriferousadjective

   full of pores or vessels or holes

   Antonyms:
   impermeable, nonporous, tight

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

3. holey, porousadjective

   allowing passage in and out

   "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

   Antonyms:
   nonporous, tight, impermeable

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

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1. porousadjective

   Antonyms:
   imporous, compact

   Synonyms:
   permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable

How to use porous in a sentence?

1. Carlos Soto:

   I'm very worried about Venezuela because there's no sanitary conditions and that means they could have the fungus and not even know it, and with such a porous border, illegal commerce and migration, it could be dangerous.

2. Stephen Mojzsis:

   Jupiter is a very inefficient gatekeeper, its like a porous border [through which] immigrants from the outer solar system would have flooded the inner solar system.

3. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   Turkey must do more to control its often-porous border, saudi Arabia and the Gulf states joined the air campaign in the early days, but have since been pre-occupied by the conflict in Yemen.

4. Mwenda Njoka:

   There is a boundary that is being constructed around the Kenya Somali border, it has been porous for a long time because the previous government have not taken serious action. [ But ] in the recent past we have established a border patrol police, a specialist police.

5. Steven Corwin:

   Yes, they are too porous. They don't work.

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