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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permeable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, open, passable, pervious, porous, receptive, susceptible |
| Main Entry: | liable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open, likely |
| Synonyms: | apt, assailable, attackable, beatable, conquerable, disposed, exposed, given, in danger, inclined, penetrable, prone, sensitive, subject, susceptible, tending, verisimilar, vincible, vulnerable |
| Notes: | to be accountable is to be liable to being called to account or answerable; liable means legally obligated or responsible; and responsible is liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust apt is for general probabilities, likely is for specific probabilities; liable and prone indicate a probability arising as a regrettable consequence use likely if you mean 'probable, expected'; use liable if you mean 'bound by law or obligation' |
| Antonyms: | immune, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | passable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear and able to be traveled |
| Synonyms: | accessible, attainable, beaten, broad, crossable, easy, fair, graded, motorable, navigable, open, penetrable, reachable, travelable, traveled, traversable, unblocked, unobstructed |
| Notes: | passable means 'barely satisfactory or able to be passed'; passible means 'capable of feeling or suffering' |
| Antonyms: | blocked, obstructed |
| Main Entry: | porous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having holes; absorbent |
| Synonyms: | absorptive, penetrable, permeable, pervious, spongelike, spongy |
| Antonyms: | impermeable |
| Main Entry: | pervious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accessible |
| Synonyms: | approachable, open, penetrable, permeable, porous |
| Antonyms: | impervious |
| Main Entry: | absorptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbent |
| Synonyms: | assimilative, bibulous, penetrable, permeable, spongy |
| Main Entry: | susceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liable |
| Synonyms: | apt, assailable, attackable, beatable, conquerable, disposed, exposed, given, in danger, inclined, open, penetrable, prone, sensitive, subject, susceptible, tending, verisimilar, vincible, vulnerable |
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