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porous |
Grep of noun porous porousness Overview of adj porous The adj porous has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (14) porous -- (able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous") 2. porous, poriferous -- (full of pores or vessels or holes) 3. holey, porous -- (allowing passage in and out "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous") Antonyms of adj porous 3 senses of porous Sense 1 porous INDIRECT (VIA permeable) -> impermeable Sense 2 porous (vs. nonporous), poriferous nonporous (vs. porous) Sense 3 holey, porous INDIRECT (VIA leaky) -> tight Similarity of adj porous 3 senses of porous Sense 1 porous => permeable (vs. impermeable) Sense 2 porous (vs. nonporous), poriferous => porose Sense 3 holey, porous => leaky (vs. tight) Attributes of adj porous Familiarity of adj porous porous used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj porous arthrosporous ascosporous basidiosporous carposporous heterosporous homosporous nonporous porous saporous stuporous vaporous Overview of adj porous The adj porous has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (14) porous -- (able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous") 2. porous, poriferous -- (full of pores or vessels or holes) 3. holey, porous -- (allowing passage in and out "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous")
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