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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbent, penetrable |
| Synonyms: | absorptive, accessible, enterable, passable, pervious, porose, porous, spongelike, spongy |
| Antonyms: | inpenetrable, unpermeable |
| Main Entry: | gritty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | granular |
| Synonyms: | abrasive, branlike, calculous, crumbly, dusty, friable, grainy, gravelly, in particles, loose, lumpy, permeable, porous, powdery, pulverant, rasping, rough, sabulous, sandy, scratchy |
| Antonyms: | fine, smooth |
| Main Entry: | porous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having holes; absorbent |
| Synonyms: | absorptive, penetrable, permeable, pervious, spongelike, spongy |
| Antonyms: | impermeable |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transparent, fine |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, attenuated, delicate, diaphanous, filmy, flimsy, gossamer, paper-thin, permeable, rare, rarefied, refined, see-through, sheer, slight, slim, subtile, subtle, tenuous, translucent, unsubstantial, wafer-thin, wispy |
| Antonyms: | dense, solid, thick |
| Main Entry: | transparent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | see-through |
| Synonyms: | cellophane, clear, crystal-clear, crystalline, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, lucent, lucid, pellucid, permeable, plain, sheer, thin, tiffany, translucent, transpicuous, vitreous |
| Notes: | translucent means light passes through but without clarity; transparent means light passes through with clarity |
| Antonyms: | blocked, cloudy, dark, opaque |
| 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: | assimilative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbent |
| Synonyms: | absorptive, assimilating, assimilatory, bibulous, permeable |
| Main Entry: | bibulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbent |
| Synonyms: | absorptive, permeable, porous, spongy |
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