Adjective: permeable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more permeable |
| Superlative | most permeable |
Sample Sentences
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permeable strata
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Rainwater sinks through permeable rock to form an underground reservoir.
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One hundred thirty-one small, highly permeable masonry wall specimens built of concrete blocks or of bricks were treated with cement-water paints or with other waterproofings. [1948, Publications of the National Bureau of Standards, page 213:]
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permeable borders
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permeable boundaries
Adjectives inflected like permeable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English permeable, permiable, from Latin permeābilis. See: Latin Adjectives '
permeābilis'.
Verbs referencing "permeable"
Swedish Adjectives
permeabel, Finnish Adjectives
permeaabeli.