penetrable

[ pen-i-truh-buhl ]

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adjective

Origin of penetrable

1375–1425; late Middle English <Latin penetrābilis, equivalent to penetrā(re) to penetrate + -bilis-ble

Probing Venus’ mountains — Science News, February 12, 1972Venus’ perpetually cloud-shrouded surface remains penetrable only by radio waves.
50 years ago, Arecibo got an unprecedented view of Venus’ surface | Maria Temming | February 11, 2022 | Science News
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.
Joan Didion Didn't Offer Us Answers | Lynn Steger Strong | December 23, 2021 | Time
This is a case in which I need whatever it is I think or believe to be penetrable, if only for myself.
Joan Didion Wrote About Grief Like No One Else Could | Annabel Gutterman | December 23, 2021 | Time
Here the fragments lay together, a mass of beams penetrable by the waves, but still breaking their force.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
This was the first time he had smarted in his penetrable part—the skin—and it made him very spiteful.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles Reade

The niche set apart for them to inhabit in our secret hearts is not penetrable by the lights and noises of common day.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare | Leo Tolstoy
The night filled with so much driving snow had become a kind of white gloom, less penetrable than the darkness.
The Hosts of the Air | Joseph A. Altsheler
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.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts

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