adj
Meaning 1
Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
penetrable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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/ˈpɛnətɹəbəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Capable of being fully understood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
admitting of penetration or passage into or through
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a penetrable wall
- penetrable defenses
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: impenetrable
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
capable of being penetrated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- penetrable defenses
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English penetrable, penytrable, from Old French penetrable, from Medieval Latin penetrābilis.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: проницаем (pronicaem) — capable of being penetrated
- Catalan: penetrable — capable of being penetrated
- Czech: proniknutelný — capable of being penetrated
- Dutch: doordringbaar — capable of being penetrated
- Finnish: läpäistävä — capable of being penetrated
- Finnish: läpäistävissä oleva — capable of being penetrated
- French: pénétrable — capable of being penetrated
- Galician: penetrable — capable of being penetrated
- Galician: penetrábel — capable of being penetrated
- German: durchlässig — capable of being penetrated
- Italian: penetrabile — capable of being penetrated
- Italian: perforabile — capable of being penetrated
- Italian: trapassabile — capable of being penetrated
- Latin: penetrābilis — capable of being penetrated
- Macedonian: пробоен (proboen) — capable of being penetrated
- Macedonian: пробивен (probiven) — capable of being penetrated
- Manx: yn-towlagh — capable of being penetrated
- Polish: penetrowalny — capable of being penetrated
- Portuguese: penetrável — capable of being penetrated
- Romanian: penetrabil — capable of being penetrated
- Serbo-Croatian: про́бо̄јан — capable of being penetrated
- Serbo-Croatian: próbōjan — capable of being penetrated
- Spanish: penetrable — capable of being penetrated