porous
adjective
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
able to absorb fluids
the partly porous walls of our digestive system
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Sense 2 adjective
full of pores or vessels or holes
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Sense 3 adjective
allowing passage in and out
our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | porosity |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | permeable |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | nonporous |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | porosity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pore |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pore |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | porose |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | hole |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pore |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | leaky |