Synonyms for pervasive
per·va·sive

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1. pervasiveadjective

   Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.

   The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.

   Synonyms:
   penetrating, permeating, pervading

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1. permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasiveadjective

   spreading or spread throughout

   "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"

   Synonyms:
   permeative, permeating, permeant

   Antonyms:
   collective

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1. List of paraphrases for "pervasive":

   omnipresent, ubiquitous, widespread, generalized, generalised, ever-present, invasive, rampant, prevalent, dominant, all-pervasive, prevailing, insidious, rife, incisive, endemic

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1. John C. Dvorak:

   In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

2. Rusi Jaspal:

   Chemsex is very pervasive now - it's a growing phenomenon.

3. Michael Holland:

   With the backdrop of a pervasive nervous marketplace ... you then have the decline in oil prices, which trips off not just further concern from real-life individuals but also more importantly from the machines which trade based on headlines.

4. The US Department of Agriculture:

   A central theme of the President Donald Trump administration has been to expand prosperity for all Americans, which includes helping people lift themselves out of pervasive poverty.

5. Rosanna Arquette:

   As we stand here at the beginning of a new year and a new decade, time's up on sexual harassment in all workplaces, and time's up on the pervasive culture of silence that has enabled abusers like Weinstein.