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porous
adjective
(po-rous)
full of pores or vessels or holes
Synonyms:
poriferous
,
Antonyms:
nonporous
,
porous
adjective
(po-rous)
allowing passage in and out
Synonyms:
holey
,
Examples:
Our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous.
porous
adjective
(po-rous)
able to absorb fluids
Examples:
The partly porous walls of our digestive system.
Compacting the soil to make it less porous.
Words Related to
porous
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permeable
,
leaky
,
holey
,
poriferous
,
porose
,
fragile
,
vulnerable
,
loopholes
,
flawed
,
insubstantial
,
pore
,
treatable
,
impermeable
,
nonporous
,
conductive
,
polymeric
,
fibrous
,
semipermeable
,
dielectric
,
hydrophilic
,
viscous
,
hydrophobic
,
dense
,
spongy
,
penetrable
,
impenetrable
,
leachy
,
imporous
,
polyporous
,
brittle
,
thin
,
gurglet
,
imporosity
,
friable
,
impregnable
,
filter paper
,
compressible
,
stingy
,
silicify
,
claylike
,
sedimented
,
glasslike
,
stout
,
sloppy
,
spongelike
,
absorptive
,
woeful
,
poriform
,
conspissation
,
insulative
,
auxetic
,
filter tip
,
diaclasis
,
flimsy
,
disjointed
,
watertight
,
calcareous
,
inhospitable
,
ragged
,
putrid
,
adarce
,
lateritic
,
airtight
,
ineffective
,
silicicalcareous
,
nonconductive
,
feldspathic
,
atmolysis
,
intergranular
,
multilayer
,
pervaporate
,
stylolite
,
opaque
,
shrinkable
,
fortified
,
vincible
,
acidic
,
karpholite
,
semisolid
,
nonmagnetic
,
silicide
,
thicker
,
calcic
,
silica glass
,
undermanned
,
polyphosphoric acid
,
nonabsorbent
,
colorfast
,
cyamelide
,
suffocating
,
immiscible
,
slippery
,
wettable
,
nonadsorbent
,
hardpan
,
kyanite
,
perforated
,
spongiose
,
radiopaque
,
fissionable
,
porous
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