porous

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. able to absorb fluids (Freq. 11)
- the partly porous walls of our digestive system
- compacting the soil to make it less porous
• Similar to:
permeable
• Derivationally related forms:
porosity, porousness
2. full of pores or vessels or holes
• Syn:
poriferous
• Ant:
nonporous
• Similar to:
porose
• Derivationally related forms:
pore (for: poriferous), pore, porosity
3. allowing passage in and out
- our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous
• Syn:
holey
• Similar to:
leaky
• Derivationally related forms:
pore, hole (for: holey)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  holey, poriferous