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penetrable

adjective as in permeable

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Probing Venus’ mountains — Science News, February 12, 1972Venus’ perpetually cloud-shrouded surface remains penetrable only by radio waves.

A wholly penetrable surface—one might also call her—that she then attempted to reshape into language that was capable of penetrating the rest of us.

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This is a case in which I need whatever it is I think or believe to be penetrable, if only for myself.

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Here the fragments lay together, a mass of beams penetrable by the waves, but still breaking their force.

This was the first time he had smarted in his penetrable part—the skin—and it made him very spiteful.

The niche set apart for them to inhabit in our secret hearts is not penetrable by the lights and noises of common day.

The night filled with so much driving snow had become a kind of white gloom, less penetrable than the darkness.

The skin is, in some parts, so thick and hard as scarcely to be penetrable by the sharpest sabre, or even by a musket-ball.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to penetrable, such as: accessible, open, passable, pervious, porous, and receptive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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