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Synonyms for porous
ˈpɔr əs, ˈpoʊr-por·ous
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porous
Synonyms:
foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolableAntonyms:
impervious, impermeable, impercolable
Princeton's WordNet
porousadjective
able to absorb fluids
"the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"
Synonyms:
poriferous, holeyAntonyms:
nonporous, impermeable, tightporous, poriferousadjective
full of pores or vessels or holes
Synonyms:
poriferous, holeyAntonyms:
impermeable, nonporous, tightholey, porousadjective
allowing passage in and out
"our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
Synonyms:
poriferous, holeyAntonyms:
nonporous, tight, impermeable
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
porousadjective
Synonyms:
permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#22024 | porous | |
#22682 | pore | |
#33839 | leaky | |
#37746 | permeable | |
#93639 | pervious | |
#109055 | holey |
How to use porous in a sentence?
I'm very worried about Venezuela because there's no sanitary conditions and that means they could have the fungus and not even know it, and with such a porous border, illegal commerce and migration, it could be dangerous.
Deep fried ice cream is really the perfect analogy, because the interior of the comets should still be very cold and contain the more porous, amorphous ice.
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.
Turkey must do more to control its often-porous border, saudi Arabia and the Gulf states joined the air campaign in the early days, but have since been pre-occupied by the conflict in Yemen.
If we had to isolate someone on-campus, we would want a room that's a single room that has its own bathroom where a person would isolate, and my recommendation would be that there's no porous-type furniture in there. You wouldn't want an upholstery type of thing, no rugs, because it makes it easier to keep clean afterwards.
Translations for porous
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- مساميةArabic
- porósCatalan, Valencian
- porézníCzech
- porøsDanish
- porösGerman
- πορώδηςGreek
- poraEsperanto
- porosoSpanish
- huokoinenFinnish
- poreuxFrench
- scagachIrish
- porosoGalician
- झरझराHindi
- porózusHungarian
- ծակոտկենArmenian
- berporiIndonesian
- porosoItalian
- נַקבּוּבִיHebrew
- 多孔質, 多孔Japanese
- ರಂಧ್ರವಿರುವKannada
- 다공성Korean
- kunkunîKurdish
- raroLatin
- pōareareMāori
- porøsNorwegian
- poreusDutch
- porøsNorwegian Nynorsk
- porøsNorwegian
- porowatyPolish
- porosoPortuguese
- porosRomanian
- пористыйRussian
- porösSwedish
- நுண்துளைTamil
- పోరస్Telugu
- มีรูพรุนThai
- gözenekliTurkish
- пористийUkrainian
- غیر محفوظUrdu
- xốpVietnamese
- porousYiddish
- 多孔的Chinese
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