Synonyms for pervasive
per·va·sive

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1. pervasiveadjective

   Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.

   The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.

   Synonyms:
   penetrating, permeating, pervading

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1. permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasiveadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   permeative, permeating, permeant

   Antonyms:
   collective

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1. List of paraphrases for "pervasive":

   omnipresent, ubiquitous, widespread, generalized, generalised, ever-present, invasive, rampant, prevalent, dominant, all-pervasive, prevailing, insidious, rife, incisive, endemic

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1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness.

2. Tracy Grant:

   United States is really pervasive, and it's not just the United States Capitol. It's not just state capitals. It's in communities large and small, in all 50 states.

3. Eric Adams:

   We're going to lose more young people, 95 percent of those victims who are victims to gun violence are Black and brown, 95 percent of the shooters are Black and Brown, we're talking about Black lives matter. We must deal with police misconduct, but we have to deal with this real pervasive handgun problem.

4. Tom Cardamone:

   This study highlights that illicit financial flows are pervasive and pernicious in the developing world.

5. President Patty Wood:

   The rule was a pervasive invasion of private property rights where the EPA literally had complete control of every drop of water in the country from a mud puddle to a farm pond, we fully support Attorney General Schmitt’s efforts to push back on the reconsideration of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule.