'Pervious' definitions:
Definition of 'pervious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat" [ant: imperviable, impervious]
Definition of 'Pervious'
From: GCIDE
- Pervious \Per"vi*ous\, a. [L. pervis; per + via a way. See Per-, and Voyage.]
- 1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil. [1913 Webster]
- [Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pervious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessible,
- amenable,
- approachable,
- attainable,
- available,
- come-at-able,
- excretory,
- exudative,
- findable,
- getatable,
- gettable,
- impressionable,
- influenceable,
- leaky,
- malleable,
- movable,
- obtainable,
- oozy,
- open,
- open to,
- open-minded,
- openable,
- penetrable,
- percolative,
- permeable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- porose,
- porous,
- procurable,
- reachable,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- runny,
- securable,
- suasible,
- suggestible,
- susceptible,
- swayable,
- to be had,
- transudative,
- weak,
- weepy,
- within reach