Penetrative

Definitions: Penetrative

Penetrative

Adjective

1. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations".

2. Tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing; "a toxic penetrative spray applied to the surface"; "a cold penetrating wind"; "a penetrating odor".

Date "penetrative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references)

Synonyms: Penetrative

Synonyms: acute (adj), discriminating (adj), incisive (adj), keen (adj), knifelike (adj), penetrating (adj), piercing (adj), sharp (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Penetrative

English words defined with "penetrative": acute ♦ discriminating ♦ incisive, Interpenetrative ♦ keen, knifelike ♦ penetrating, Penetrativeness, piercing ♦ sharp. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Mathematical Aspects of Penetrative Convection (Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics, No 288) (reference) Turbulent Penetrative Convection (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Very soon, however, his look became keen and penetrative.
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"Penetrative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Penetrative" is used about 42 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)	95.24%	40	54,274
Noun (proper)	4.76%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

Expression using "penetrative": penetrative power. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "penetrative": non-penetrative.
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Language		Translations for "penetrative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhbirues (penetrating, searching, snoop, snooper), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), depërtues (clairvoyant, keen, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, searching). (various references)

Arabic		‏مخترق (penetrating, searching), ‏نافذ (penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, searching), ‏داخل (amidst, in, ingoing, inner, penetrating). (various references)

Bulgarian		вълнуващ (emotive, exciting, moving, palpitating, soul-stirring, spectacular, stirring), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), проницателен (acute, argus-eyed, astute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, long-headed, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, profound, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd, wise), проникващ (hard, penetrating, pervasive), прозорлив (farseeing, penetrating, perspicacious, profound, sagacious), дълбок (abysmal, abyssal, deep, dreamless, heavy, hollow, intense, intimate, penetrating, profound, rooted, visceral). (various references)

Danish		mikroskopi med gennemfaldende lys (penetrative radiomicroscopy). (various references)

French		pénétrant (penetrating, perspicacious, pervasive). (various references)

German		durchdringender, durchdringend (biting, penetrating, penetratingly, penetratively, permeating, pervading, pervasive, pervasively, piercing, piercingly, pungent, searching, searchingly, sharp, shrewd, strident, tangy, thrilling, through, thru). (various references)

Greek		διαπεραστικόσ (penetrable, penetrating, permeative, pervasive, piercing, shrill). (various references)

Hungarian		átható (acute, intent, obtrusive, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, poignant, shrill, trans). (various references)

Manx		towllagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		enetrativepay

Portuguese		perspicaz (acute, apprehensive, argute, astucious, astute, canny, clear, clearheaded, clear-sighted, cute, discerning, far sighted, far-seeing, keen, long sighted, longheaded, penetration, perspicacious, quick-eyed, sagacious, sharp, shrewd), penetrativo (penetrating), penetrante (acerbic, biting, bitter, clear-sighted, discrimination, in depth, incisive, keen, penetrant, penetrating, perspicacity, pervasive, piercing, pointed, screaming, screamy, searching, sharp, sharply, shooting, shrill, smart, subtil, subtile, subtle), inteligente (adroit, apprehensive, apt, brainy, clearheaded, clever, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, known, quick-witted, sagacious, sensitive, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding, user-programmable), acuidade mental. (various references)

Russian		проникающий (engrained, ingrain, penetrating, pervasive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prodoran (argute, cutting, piercing, pointed, trenchant), probojan (penetrable, penetrating, searching), upečatljiv (impressible, impressionable, impressive, striking). (various references)

Spanish		penetrante (acute, bitter, clear, deep, injudicious, invader, obtrusive, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, probing, searching, sharp, shrewd). (various references)

Swedish		skarpsinnig (acuate, acute, astute, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, infenious, keen, long-headed, penetrating, perspicacious, sagacious, sharp-witted), intelligent (clever, intelligent, sharp, user-programmable), genomträngande (keen, overpowering, penetrating, penetration, permeation, pervasion, pervasive, piercing, sharp, shrill). (various references)

Turkish		zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), yüksek (above, acro-, buoyant, Clarion, elevated, exalted, high, highrise, hyper-, lofty, loud, over, penetrating, spheric, stately, superior, tall), keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), içine işleyen (cutting, effecting painfully, mordant, penetrating, piercing, profound), içe işleyen (cutting, mordant, penetrating, profound), etkili (commanding, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, forcible, hefty, influential, moving, operative, penetrating, poignant, potent, powerful, sovereign, swinging, telling, trenchant), delici (penetrating, perforator, piercing, poignant). (various references)

Ukranian		проникаючий (penetrating, pervasive), проникливий (acute, astute, cute, discerning, eagle-eyed, gleg, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, profound, quick-sighted, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd). (various references)

Vietnamese		thấu suốt (penetrating), thấm v� o, thấm thía sắc sảo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Penetrative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: penetratively. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "penetrative" (pronounced 'Pen"e*tra*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-t-t-v"
	-1 letter: inveterate.
	-2 letters: patienter, penetrate, retentive.
	-3 letters: antevert, aperient, enervate, patentee, triptane, venerate.
	-4 letters: arenite, ariette, entreat, intreat, iterant, iterate, naivete, nattier, navette, nervate, nettier, nitrate, painter, partite, patient, pattern, peatier, perinea, pertain, pettier, preteen, prevent, private, ratteen, repaint, reptant, retinae, teenier, tentier, ternate, terpene, tertian, trainee, veteran.
	-5 letters: arpent, attire, enrapt, entera, entire, entrap, entree.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-t-t-v"
	+1 letter: presentative, preventative.
	+2 letters: preventatives.
	+3 letters: hyperventilate, interoperative, interpretative, representative.
	+4 letters: hyperventilated, hyperventilates, interoperatives, overexpectation, representatives.
	+5 letters: antihypertensive, interpretatively, overexpectations, preventabilities, representatively, representativity, unrepresentative.
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