Local English word record

permeant

adjective · 1 sense

spreading or spread throughout

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Examples

  • armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations
  • the pervasive odor of garlic
  • an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion

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Synonyms

permeating, permeative, pervasive

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Princeton WordNet 3.0