porous
adjective
1 porous
Able to absorb fluids.
Roget 252: depressed etc. v.; alveolate†, calathiform†, cup-shaped, dishing; favaginous†, faveolate†, favose†; scyphiform†, scyphose†; concave, hollow, ... show more
Roget 252a: cellular, spongy, spongious†; honeycombed, alveolar; sintered; porous (opening) 260.
Roget 260: open; perforated etc. v.; perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped; oscitant†, gaping, yawning; patent. tubular, ... show more
2 porous
3 porous
Allowing passage in and out:
— Our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous.
synonym: holey.
Polish: dziurawy
Moby thesaurus: cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable, percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny, sievelike, spongelike, spongy, transudative, weepy.
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