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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 | |
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#33839 | leaky | |
#37746 | permeable | |
#93639 | pervious | |
#109055 | holey |
How to use porous in a sentence?
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.
Sophisticated travel networks operate to take recruits across the porous borders, and sometimes through areas where trafficking in people and illicit goods may not be effectively controlled, testimony has documented that the routes taken entail travel through Libya, then Turkey and its border at Antakya, and then Syria.
Deep fried ice cream is really the perfect analogy, because the interior of the comets should still be very cold and contain the more porous, amorphous ice.
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.
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.
Translations for porous
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- porósCatalan, Valencian
- porøsDanish
- porösGerman
- porosoSpanish
- huokoinenFinnish
- poreuxFrench
- porosoGalician
- झरझराHindi
- ծակոտկենArmenian
- berporiIndonesian
- porosoItalian
- 多孔質, 多孔Japanese
- kunkunîKurdish
- pōareareMāori
- porøsNorwegian
- porøsNorwegian Nynorsk
- porosoPortuguese
- пористыйRussian
- porösSwedish
- porousYiddish
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