'Pervasive' definitions:
Definition of 'pervasive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion" [syn: permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive]
Definition of 'Pervasive'
From: GCIDE
- Pervasive \Per*va"sive\ (p[~e]r*v[=a]"s[i^]v), a. Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of a pervading quality. "Civilization pervasive and general." --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pervasive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- born,
- broad-based,
- clean,
- clear,
- comprehensive,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- deep-dyed,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- exhaustive,
- general,
- inescapable,
- intensive,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- penetrating,
- perfect,
- permeating,
- permeative,
- pervading,
- plain,
- plumb,
- prevalent,
- pure,
- radical,
- regular,
- sheer,
- straight,
- suffusing,
- suffusive,
- sweeping,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- ubiquitous,
- unconditional,
- universal,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- utter,
- veritable,
- wholesale,
- widespread