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Penetrable vs Riddled - What's the difference?

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Penetrable is a related term of riddled.


As adjectives the difference between penetrable and riddled

is that penetrable is penetrable while riddled is damaged throughout by holes.

As a verb riddled is

(riddle).

penetrable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
  • * 1867 : , The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World
    • On the east the high mountain-chain of Zagros, penetrable only in one or two places, forms a barrier of the most marked character, and is beyond a doubt the natural limit for which we are looking.
  • * 1900 : Arthur M. Mann, The Boer in Peace and War
    • A Boer may know you, but it will take you some time to know him, and when a certain stage in your acquaintance is reached, you may begin to wonder whether his real nature is penetrable at all.
  • * 1996 : Peter Carruthers & Peter K. Smith, Theories of Theories of Mind
    • A capacity is cognitively penetrable in this sense if that capacity is affected by the subject's knowledge or ignorance of the domain.

    Antonyms

    * impenetrable

    Related terms

    * penetrableness * penetrably

    References

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    riddled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Damaged throughout by holes.
  • Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
  • #
  • The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
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  • #* 2008 , Joan London, The Good Parents , Random House Australia, ISBN 978-1-74166-793-6, page 235:
  • They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (riddle)

    • Anagrams

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