Pervious vs Impervious - What's the difference?
pervious | impervious | Antonyms |
Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
* Alexander Pope
Accepting of new ideas.
Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
Unaffected or unable to be affected by.
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Preventive of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water.
Immune to damage or effect.
Impervious is a antonym of pervious.
As adjectives the difference between pervious and impervious
is that pervious is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable while impervious is unaffected or unable to be affected by.pervious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a pervious soil
- [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
- (Prior)