'Porous' definitions:
Definition of 'porous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"
adjective
Full of pores or vessels or holes [syn: porous, poriferous] [ant: nonporous]
adjective
Allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn: holey, porous]
Definition of 'Porous'
From: GCIDE
- Porous \Por"ous\, a. [Cf. F. poreux. See Pore, n.] Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'porous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- cribriform,
- excretory,
- exudative,
- leachy,
- leaky,
- oozy,
- penetrable,
- percolating,
- percolative,
- permeable,
- pervious,
- porose,
- runny,
- sievelike,
- spongelike,
- spongy,
- transudative,
- weepy