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Definition: Pervious |
PerviousAdjective1. Admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pervious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Etymology: Pervious \Per"vi*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression pervis; per via way. See Per-, and Voyage.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | See:permeable. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: impervious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Opening | Tubular, cannular, fistulous; pervious, permeable; foraminous; vesicular, vasicular; porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled; tubulous, tubulated; piped, tubate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pervious |
| English words defined with "pervious": Adiathermic ♦ ground water ♦ Hepatization ♦ Leachy ♦ Pervial ♦ spring water ♦ Transcalent, Transpicuous ♦ well water. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pervious": composite earth dam ♦ deep well ♦ electrofiltration ♦ fracture porosity ♦ multiple-zoned earth dam ♦ Pervious Zone ♦ zoned earth dam. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pervious": imperviable ♦ Pervial. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | Unlike in the pervious year, travelers are not required to present letters of invitation to receive an "international page" if they have never traveled abroad. (references) |
Economic History | South Africa | The 2001 budget allocations mark a large increase in infrastructure spending over pervious years and may signal a renewed commitment to infrastructure development in the near term. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pervious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pervious" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pervious": semi-pervious. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
concrete pervious | 17 |
pervious pavement | 8 |
pavers pervious | 4 |
asphalt pervious | 4 |
pervious | 4 |
pervious paving | 2 |
concrete pavement pervious | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pervious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i përshkueshëm (penetrable, permeable), i ndikueshëm (impressible, impressionable, plastic, sensitive, suggestible), i hapur (ajar, blunt, champaign, direct, exposed, forthright, Frank, free, heart-to-heart, honest, hospitable, low, naked, open, open-hearted, overground, overt, plain, public, straightforward, unclosed, uncovered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قابل للإختراق (penetrable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | проходим (negotiable, passable, practicable), проницаем (penetrable, permeable), промокаем (permeable), пропускащ, податлив (accessible to, amenable, apt, ductile, flexible, malleable, manageable, pliable, pliant, supple, susceptible, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prostupný (penetrable), proniknutelný (penetrable, permeable), přijatelný (acceptable, palatable, plausible, satisfactory, tolerable, within reason), přístupný (accessible, admissible, amenable, approachable, come-at-able, comprehensible, get-at-table, open). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | perméable (permeable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zugänglich (accessable, accessible, accessibly, amenable, approachable, available, open), durchlässig (conducting, diaphanous, leaky, open, permeable, porous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαπερατόσ (penetrable), διαχωρητόσ (permeable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חדיר (meable, penetrable, permeable), נקבובי (perforated, porous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vízáteresztő, permeábilis, perózus, áteresztő (pass, permeable, untight), átengedő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | permeabile (diaphanous, permeable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 光が透るカーテン (curtain pervious to light), 光を通す (to be pervious to light), 光を透す (to be pervious to light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひかりがとおるカーテン (curtain pervious to light), ひかりをとおす (to be pervious to light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuyeenagh, faarnagh (dripping, drippy, leaky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erviouspay pérvio, que pode perverter-se, que dá passagem, acessível (accessible, approachable, available, easy, forthcoming, get-at-able, handy), aberto (Frank, gaping, ingenuous, inlet, naked eye, open, open-hearted, outspread, outstrip, plainspoken, staring, unclosed, unobstructed). (various references) permeabil (leaky, permeable), receptiv (acquisitive, alive, apprehensive, nimble, open minded, perceptively, receptive, recipe), accesibil (accessible, affable, approachable, attainable, available, come-at-able, easy of access, get-at-able, moderate, obtainable, open, patent, reachable). (various references) проходимый (negotiable, passable, permeable), проницаемый (penetrable, permeable), пропускающий, поддающийся влиянию. (various references) prolazan (brief, caducous, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugacious, momentary, negotiable, passable, passing, perishable, temporary, transient, transitory), prohodan (passable), pristupačan (accessible, approachable, available, come-at-able, getatable). (various references) permeable (diaphanous, permeable), penetrable (penetrable, plumbable). (various references) tillgänglig (accessible, amenable, approachable, available, disposable, forthcoming, open, penetrable, reachable), mottaglig (adoptive, amenable, hospitable, liable, retentive, susceptible), genomtränglig (penetrable, permeable), genomsläpplig (permeable). (various references) ulaşılabilir (accessible, approachable, attainable, come-at-able, reachable), geçit veren, geçirgen (conductive, permeable, porous). (various references) сприйнятливий (acquisitive, adoptive, alive, apprehensive, apt, cataleptic, facile, open minded, perceptive, receptive, recipient, sensitive, susceptive), прохідний (negotiable, passable, practicable, walkable), доступний (accessible, approachable, available, negotiable, obnoxious, obtainable, open, procurable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pervious": perviousness, perviousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pervious": impervious. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pervious": imperviously, imperviousness, imperviousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Pervious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eprevious, nervious, parious, Pelvoux, perciou, percious, perious, perlious, pernious, Persius, Piriou, preious, pretiosum, previeous, previos, previou, previousy, previus, purious, Servamus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pervious" (pronounced 'Per"vi*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: previous, viperous. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: oversup, soupier. | |
-2 letters: poiser, poseur, proves, uprise, uprose, vipers, vireos. | |
-3 letters: euros, osier, ourie, overs, peris, piers, pious, poise, pores, poser, pours, pries, prise, prose, prove, puris, purse, repos, ripes, rives, ropes, roues, roups, rouse, roves, servo, sieur, sirup, siver, speir, spier, spire, spore, sprue, super, verso, viers, viper, vireo, vires, virus, visor. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: purposive. | |
+2 letters: impervious, poxviruses, previously, propulsive, protrusive, proviruses, supervisor, supportive, viperously. | |
+3 letters: oversupping, purposively, sporulative, supervision, supervisors, supervisory. | |
+4 letters: imperviously, nonpurposive, oversupplied, oversupplies, parvoviruses, perviousness, polioviruses, posteruptive, previousness, protrusively, supervention, supervisions, unresponsive, vituperators, voluptuaries. | |
+5 letters: avoirdupoises, nondisruptive, oversupplying, papovaviruses, purposiveness, reproductives, superventions, supervirtuosi, supervirtuoso, unprogressive, vituperations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 76 69 6F 75 73 |
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