penetrating

Meaning of penetrating

verb
  1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
    Light penetrates darkness.
  2. To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
    I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
  3. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
    to penetrate one's heart with pity
  4. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
  5. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.
    a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female elephant
  6. To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
adjective
  1. Able to pierce or penetrate
    The skunk produces a penetrating odor.
  2. Demonstrating acute or keen understanding
    His novel shows a penetrating insight into the criminal mind.

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Hyphenation of penetrating

pen-e-trat-ing

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • penetrating is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

penetrating synonyms

Meaning acute:

acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp

Meaning penetrative:

penetrative

Translation of penetrating

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