Associations to the word «Pervious»

Wiktionary

PERVIOUS, adjective. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
PERVIOUS, adjective. Accepting of new ideas.
PERVIOUS, adjective. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
PERVIOUS, adjective. (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
PERVIOUS, adjective. (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

Dictionary definition

PERVIOUS, adjective. Admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a metal pervious to heat".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley