Grade 8

porous (po-rous)

Definition


adjective.
full of tiny holes or spaces; easily penetrated by gas or liquid.

Example Sentence

The top of the clay table was porous.

Synonyms

having holes; absorbent; penetrable

Antonyms

impermeable

Rhymes

  • chorus
  • florists
  • forests
  • goris
  • horace
  • horus
  • maurice
  • maurus
  • morris
  • morris'
  • porous
  • sorus
  • taurus
  • torras
  • torus

  • delores
  • dolores
  • fitzmaurice
  • fitzmorris
  • mcmorris
  • montgoris
  • thesaurus

  • brontosaurus
  • stegosaurus

  • maquiladoras
  • tyrannosaurus