Synonyms for porous
ˈpɔr əs, ˈpoʊr-por·ous

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1. porousadjective

   Synonyms:
   permeable

2. porousadjective

   Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.

   Synonyms:
   permeable

3. porousadjective

   (Of legislation) full of loopholes

   Synonyms:
   permeable

4. porousadjective

   With many gaps.

   Synonyms:
   permeable

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. porous

   Synonyms:
   foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable

   Antonyms:
   impervious, impermeable, impercolable

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1. porousadjective

   able to absorb fluids

   "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

   Antonyms:
   nonporous, impermeable, tight

2. porous, poriferousadjective

   full of pores or vessels or holes

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

   Antonyms:
   impermeable, nonporous, tight

3. holey, porousadjective

   allowing passage in and out

   "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

   Antonyms:
   nonporous, tight, impermeable

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1. porousadjective

   Synonyms:
   permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable

   Antonyms:
   imporous, compact

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1. List of paraphrases for "porous":

   permeable, pore, leaky

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1. Carlos Soto:

   I'm very worried about Venezuela because there's no sanitary conditions and that means they could have the fungus and not even know it, and with such a porous border, illegal commerce and migration, it could be dangerous.

2. Murthy Gudipati:

   Deep fried ice cream is really the perfect analogy, because the interior of the comets should still be very cold and contain the more porous, amorphous ice.

3. Jim Carroll:

   I think that's one of the ways we have to sort of approach this issue, the prevention side of this is so key, but we just need to know that drugs are not coming into our country. We can not have a porous border for drugs.

4. Rick Francona:

   And that border is very, very porous.

5. Greg Murphy:

   It affects every community, and the fact that this has been opened up along a very porous border … further reiterates the fact that every city in this country is a border city, every street a border street. and so as the Biden administration continues to ignore this, which is what they're doing. They're hoping it will just go away, and that people won't talk about it. … The mainstream media is not talking about it because again, as usual, they're protecting and the Democratic arm of this government. And that's a tragedy.