pervious

American  

[pur-vee-uhs] / ˈpɜr vi əs /

adjective

1. admitting of passage or entrance; permeable.

   pervious soil.

2. open or accessible to reason, feeling, argument, etc..

   Unfortunately, she was pervious to whatever rationale had been most recently presented.

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pervious British  

/ ˈpɜːvɪəs /

adjective

1. able to be penetrated; permeable

2. receptive to new ideas; open-minded

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Other Word Forms

• perviously
  adverb
• perviousness
  noun
• semipervious
  adjective
• semiperviousness
  noun
• unpervious
  adjective
• unperviously
  adverb
• unperviousness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of pervious

First recorded in 1625–30; from Latin pervius “passable,” equivalent to per- “through” + vi(a) “way, road” + -us adjective suffix; see origin at per-, -ous

Compare meaning

How does pervious compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• pervious vs. impervious

Example Sentences

Yet be blessèd to the height Of all good and all delight Pervious to thy nature; Only loved beyond that line, With a love that answers thine, Loving fellow-creature!

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam

XX Yet be blessed to the height Of all good and all delight Pervious to thy nature; Only loved beyond that line, With a love that answers thine, Loving fellow-creature!

From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various

Sar.‍And all this is left200 Pervious to the assailants?

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

He hath also flesh to steel660 Pervious, within it but a single life, And men report him mortal, howsoe'er Saturnian Jove lift him to glory now.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William