pervasive
Meaning of pervasive
adjective
- (especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.
ageism is pervasive and entrenched in our society
mid 18th century: from Latin pervas- ‘passed through’ (from the verb pervadere ) + -ive.
Information about pervasive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of pervasive
per-va-sive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- pervasive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
pervasive synonyms
Meaning permeant:
permeant, permeating, permeative
Meaning widespread in a particular area or at a particular time:
Meaning able to make a way through or into something:
Meaning (especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of:
Meaning covering or affecting a large area:
Meaning present, appearing, or found everywhere:
Meaning widely or constantly encountered; widespread:
Meaning (especially of something undesirable) of common occurrence; widespread:
Meaning found or distributed over a large area or number of people:
Meaning affecting or concerning all or most people or things; widespread:
Meaning occurring, found, or done often; prevalent:
Meaning relating to or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases:
Meaning (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world:
Meaning of the nature of an epidemic:
Meaning (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area:
Meaning unable to be avoided or denied:
Meaning proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects:
Meaning (of God) permanently pervading and sustaining the universe:
Translation of pervasive
- German: durchdringend
- Spanish: penetrante
- French: pénétrant, envahissant
- Italian: pervasivo, penetrante, permeante, pervadente
Words that rhyme with pervasive
abrasive, airbrasive, appeasive, assuasive, corrasive, defeasive, dissuasive, evasive, interpervasive, invasive, nonabrasive, nonevasive, noninvasive, nonpersuasive, occasive, persuasive, preinvasive, prepersuasive, suasive, ultrapersuasive, unabrasive, unassuasive, unevasive, uninvasive, unpersuasive, unpervasive, unpleasive, adhesive, cohesive, cresive, equicohesive, inadhesive, incohesive, inhesive, nonadhesive, noncohesive, overaggresive, semiadhesive, succesive, suppresive, unadhesive, uncohesive, advisive, appraisive, cicatrisive, collisive, decisive, derisive, divisive, incisive
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