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[ UK /pˈɜːvɪəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. admitting of passage or entrance
    pervious soil
    a metal pervious to heat

How To Use pervious In A Sentence

  • He was completely impervious to criticism.
  • It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.
  • It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over the last couple of years, he had become impervious to the disrespect and ignorance of his classmates.
  • His ego was impervious to self-doubt.
  • The emerging generation are more and more impervious to standard school indoctrination, less ready to give up their seats on buses, less respectful and filial.
  • The heavy cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
  • Worn over her unfeeling body, the suit gave the thirty-something Casey the strength of twenty men, and made her almost impervious to harm as well as giving her certain enhanced sensory abilities.
  • The basal layer, like the superficial layer, is porose, but its pores are not pervious to air.
  • State-Zionism is an ideology based on an absolute conviction, one impervious to history and experience, to emendation and to compromise.
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