Analysis Complete

porous

/ porous /
adjective/adjective satellite

Definitions & Examples

adjective Sense 1
full of pores or vessels or holes
Similar:
porose
Opposites:
nonporous
adjective satellite Sense 2
able to absorb fluids
"the partly porous walls of our digestive system"
"compacting the soil to make it less porous"
Similar:
permeable
adjective satellite Sense 3
allowing passage in and out
"our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
Similar:
leaky
Semantic Complexity
32%
Sense Count
3
Total Synonyms
3
Total Relationships
4
Times Searched
3
Relationship Distribution

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porose nonporous permeable leaky