Pervading

Definition: Pervading

Pervading

Adjective

1. Spread throughout; "a pervasive anxiety overshadows the triumphs of individuals".

Date "pervading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Pervading

Synonym: pervasive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Affections	Passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion; furore; fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul.
Feeling	Pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous; (excitable).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pervading

English words defined with "pervading": Esprit de corps ♦ Irriguous ♦ strain ♦ tenor. (references)

Etymologies containing "pervading": Pervade. (references)

Author	Quotation
Charles Dickens	Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He strode homeward, conscious of an invisible grace pervading and making light his limbs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The cause must therefore be deeper and more pervading than the tariff of the United States.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Pervading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 55.32% of the time. "Pervading" is used about 47 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	55.32%	26	68,323
Adjective (general or positive)	44.68%	21	76,261
Total	100.00%	47	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "pervading": all-pervading.
	Containing "pervading": all-pervading power.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "pervading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		溥 (extensive), 弥漫 (Pervade, Pervaded, Pervasive). (various references)

French		répandu, étendu. (various references)

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

Hungarian		uralkodó (dominant, domineering, governing, hegemonic, imp, majesty, monarch, potentate, predominant, preponderant, prepotent, presence, prevailing, prevalent, queen consort, rampant, regnant, ruler, ruling, sceptered, sceptred, sovereign), széles körben elterjedt (widespread), mindent betöltő, mindent átható (all-pervading), mindent (first things first, on the whole), elterjedt (current, prevalent, rife, to pass current, to run current, worldwide), átjáró (alley, areaway, gangway, gap, lane, passage, passageway, stile, way through). (various references)

Korean		보급 (Dissemination, Prevalence). (various references)

Pig Latin		ervadingpay

Russian		наполнять наполняющий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prožimajući. (various references)

Swedish		genomgående (all through, constant, through). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pervading" (pronounced pervā"ding)
5	-v ā" d i ng	evading, invading.
4	-ā" d i ng	aiding, blockading, braiding, cascading, crusading, degrading, fading, grading, lading, masquerading, parading, persuading, raiding, serenading, shading, trading, upgrading, wading.
3	-d i ng	abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, joyriding, kidding, kneading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, pending, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: depraving.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-p-r-v"
	-1 letter: repaving.
	-2 letters: deaving, deraign, draping, evading, gradine, grained, invader, pardine, pranged, ravined, reading, reaping, reaving, vinegar.
	-3 letters: danger, daring, denari, diaper, dinger, driven, earing, engird, gained, gainer, gander, garden, girned, gradin, graved, graven, gravid, griped, invade, naiver, pained, paired, pander, panged, panier, pardie, parged, paring, paving, pinder, pinged, pinger, rained, ranged, rapine, raping.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-p-r-v"
	+3 letters: overpedaling.
	+4 letters: eavesdropping, overexpanding, overpedalling, overspreading.
	+5 letters: overpersuading.
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