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Synonyms for porous
ˈpɔr əs, ˈpoʊr-por·ous
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porous
Synonyms:
foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolableAntonyms:
impervious, impermeable, impercolable
Princeton's WordNet
porousadjective
able to absorb fluids
"the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"
Synonyms:
poriferous, holeyAntonyms:
nonporous, impermeable, tightporous, poriferousadjective
full of pores or vessels or holes
Synonyms:
poriferous, holeyAntonyms:
impermeable, nonporous, tightholey, porousadjective
allowing passage in and out
"our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
Synonyms:
poriferous, holeyAntonyms:
nonporous, tight, impermeable
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
porousadjective
Synonyms:
permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#22024 | porous | |
#22682 | pore | |
#33839 | leaky | |
#37746 | permeable | |
#93639 | pervious | |
#109055 | holey |
How to use porous in a sentence?
China is taking a huge role in pouring these poisons into the United States via the porous southern border. China needs to be held accountable for this, they're utilizing the vehicles, that I'm going to identify as the drug cartels, they're utilizing those to infiltrate into the United States and cause this crisis.
Mar-a-Lago has been a porous place ever since Donald Trump declared Donald Trump candidacy and started winning primaries several years ago, if you were any intelligence service, friendly or unfriendly, worth their salt, they would be concentrating their efforts on this incredibly porous place.
We face very real security threats today, porous borders and lax immigration enforcement have left us vulnerable not only to terrorist attacks but to increasing levels of crime in our communities. Those already accustomed to flagrantly disregarding our laws do not hesitate to traffic their deadly cocktail of drugs and gang violence into Virginia.
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.
This border is very porous, you will not know who has passed if the person went through the unofficial border posts, in most cases. Now there is anxiety and so on. We have heightened our alertness.
Translations for porous
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- مساميةArabic
- porósCatalan, Valencian
- porézníCzech
- porøsDanish
- porösGerman
- πορώδηςGreek
- poraEsperanto
- porosoSpanish
- huokoinenFinnish
- poreuxFrench
- scagachIrish
- porosoGalician
- झरझराHindi
- porózusHungarian
- ծակոտկենArmenian
- berporiIndonesian
- porosoItalian
- נַקבּוּבִיHebrew
- 多孔質, 多孔Japanese
- ರಂಧ್ರವಿರುವKannada
- 다공성Korean
- kunkunîKurdish
- raroLatin
- pōareareMāori
- porøsNorwegian
- poreusDutch
- porøsNorwegian Nynorsk
- porøsNorwegian
- porowatyPolish
- porosoPortuguese
- porosRomanian
- пористыйRussian
- porösSwedish
- நுண்துளைTamil
- పోరస్Telugu
- มีรูพรุนThai
- gözenekliTurkish
- пористийUkrainian
- غیر محفوظUrdu
- xốpVietnamese
- porousYiddish
- 多孔的Chinese
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