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; per-, -ous

Compare meaning

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

• pervious vs. impervious

Example Sentences

While there are pervious concrete options, Gile is not a fan.

From Seattle Times

Reminisce about the Bluebonnet Bowl, the postseason game once played in the old Houston Astrodome that was the setting for the only pervious matchup of the Boilermakers and Volunteers in 1979.

From Fox News

The rewritten constitution focuses more on the NCAA’s broader goals of athlete welfare than the pervious version, which took a more granular approach.

From Seattle Times

Caesars also recently bought naming rights to the Superdome, the home stadium of the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, after the New Orleans sports venue’s pervious naming deal with German automaker Mercedes-Benz expired over the summer.

From Seattle Times

The seizure is the largest of its kind in the UK - beating the pervious record set when the Met confiscated £114m of cryptocurrency on 24 June.

From BBC