permeable

Adjective

Meaning

Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

open thin accessible transparent susceptible receptive tubular porous dusty porosity gritty absorbent powdery passable spongy
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Antonyms

impermeable mackintosh hermetic solid cold compact
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Related terms

permeability

Phrases with the word

radiation-permeable light-permeable moisture-permeable fluid-permeable semi-permeable air-permeable

Examples

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. Philip Zimbardo

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. Teresa de Lauretis

We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. Kevin Powers

permeable membranes Source: Internet

rock that is permeable by water Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

permeabilize permeabilized permeabilizer permeableness permeablise permeablized