pervious

Latin pervius.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː.vi.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)viəs

pervious (comparative more pervious, superlative most pervious)

1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.

   a pervious soil

   • Alexander Pope

     [Doors] […] pervious to winds, and open every way.

2. Accepting of new ideas.
3. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)

     God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.

4. (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)

5. (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

• impervious

• permeable
• porous

• previous, viperous