Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Able or seeming to penetrate: The penetrating odor of garlic soon filled the entire apartment.
- adj. Keenly perceptive or understanding; acute: The lecture provided penetrating insight into foreign affairs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the power of passing into or through (something); sharp; subtile: as, a penetrating odor.
- Acute; discerning; quick to discover or recognize: as, a penetrating mind.
Wiktionary
- adj. able to pierce or penetrate
- adj. demonstrating acute or keen understanding
- v. present participle of penetrate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative.
- adj. Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- adj. tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing
Examples
“We would train Navy doctors and nurses and corpsmen with experience in gunshot wounds before they went to war, because most Navy personnel have no experience in what we call penetrating trauma," he said.”
“That's what makes Google so intriguing, and a worthy subject for New Yorker writer Ken Auletta's 11th book, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Unlike Curse, which treats moguls with derision, Auletta's more interested in penetrating the often secretive world of the business elite and telling the stories with skill, intelligence and respect.”
“* RF Countersurveillance/A primer on monitoring police and security frequencies using a trunk-tracking scanner, and how it can assist in penetrating a targetMo”
“Its success in penetrating the mainstream culture is evident in the pundit shows on most of the networks and cable TV, and in the columns of The Washington Post and The New York Times.”
“I believe the first key to success in penetrating a culture is simply this — have a goal that is clear, written and most of all has milestones that can be achieved.”
“He is a news reporter for BanglaVision, one of the main news channels, who made his name penetrating the thickets of the Islamist underground.”
Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming
“As someone who understands memes and how they can be useful in penetrating thick skulls, I can at least appreciate the sentiments behind the aims of this commercial.”
“The difference between medics and most other people, however, is: like lawyers, doctors and other medical workers generally practice behind near-impenetrable professional screens and when complaints succeed in penetrating them, more often than not, other doctors (or lawyers) sitting on boards dispense ‘punishment’.”
“A man named Mario Valdés, today widely believed to have been a federal spy, succeeded in penetrating the rebel ranks.”
“Right now, a high dollar, steep borrowing costs and inflation have confounded their success in penetrating foreign markets.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘penetrating’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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The eyes have it
descriptive eye words
animated, bright-eyed, comprehending, penetrating, unflinching, flinty, intense, fleeting, sly, glowering, dazed, incredulous and 36 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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just because
These are words I am picking just because I like them.
I might make more categorized lists later, we shall have to wait and see.animated, asperger, ersatz, surreptitious, extraneous, asynchronous, erroneous, surreal, dreamlike, lackadaisical, opium, firnification and 55 more...
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