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Synonyms for porous
ˈpɔr əs, ˈpoʊr-por·ous

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Wiktionary2.5 / 2 votes

  1. porousadjective

    Synonyms:
    permeable

  2. porousadjective

    Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.

    Synonyms:
    permeable

  3. porousadjective

    (Of legislation) full of loopholes

    Synonyms:
    permeable

  4. porousadjective

    With many gaps.

    Synonyms:
    permeable

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. porous

    Synonyms:
    foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable

    Antonyms:
    impervious, impermeable, impercolable

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. porousadjective

    able to absorb fluids

    "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

    Synonyms:
    poriferous, holey

    Antonyms:
    nonporous, impermeable, tight

  2. porous, poriferousadjective

    full of pores or vessels or holes

    Synonyms:
    poriferous, holey

    Antonyms:
    impermeable, nonporous, tight

  3. holey, porousadjective

    allowing passage in and out

    "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

    Synonyms:
    poriferous, holey

    Antonyms:
    nonporous, tight, impermeable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. porousadjective

    Synonyms:
    permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable

    Antonyms:
    imporous, compact

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "porous":

    permeable, pore, leaky

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How to use porous in a sentence?

  1. Aki Peritz:

    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.

  2. Ellen Perez:

    [We] feel it's very important for Americans to have compassion in this situation. These are not random, uninvited immigrants pouring over a porous border. These are people that we gave our word to, they worked alongside us, believing in our cause. And we gave our word that if … they needed to leave because there were danger from the Taliban, then we would help them do so.

  3. Ken Cuccinelli:

    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.

  4. Defense Ashton Carter:

    Turkey is a longtime friend of ours. It's a NATO ally. We're strongly in support of it. We stand with it in terms of defense of its own territory, but the reality is it shares a big border with Iraq and Syria, which border has been porous to foreign fighters going in both directions and I think the Turks could do more.

  5. Steven Corwin:

    Yes, they are too porous. They don't work.


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