Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to penetrate; penetrant.
- adjective Displaying keen insight; acute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Penetrating; piercing; keen; subtle; permeating.
- Acute; discerning; sagacious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing.
- adjective Having the power to affect or impress the mind or heart; impressive.
- adjective Acute; discerning; sagacious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or involving
penetration - adjective Having the ability to
penetrate - adjective Displaying
insight ordiscrimination ;acute
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing
- adjective having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
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Examples
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It is a genuine biography with that special accent due to the biographer's personality and his power of what I may call penetrative synthesis.
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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The insistence on seeing HIV transmission as villainy obscures the most stubborn fact about the epidemic - far from being the realm of malevolent or sociopathic people, HIV is transmitted through behaviors that are otherwise completely natural and normal, such as penetrative intercourse - or behaviors that may often be hard to control rather than
RHRealityCheck.org Shawn Syms 2009
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Since girls are not necessarily going to have "penetrative" sex with boys and men and boys / men are almost certainly going to be having "penetrative" sex with somebody, why not treat only boys and men for this?
Women's Space 2008
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It's a violent, penetrative act, that scars what it observes.
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Throbert McGee says: it would appear that non-penetrative sexual activities, such as frottage and mutual masturbation, are technically excluded.
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Before the Hite Report, sexologists such as Freud and Kinsey propounded the view that "proper vaginal orgasms" could only come about with penetrative sex.
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To provide efficiency during maintenance, the concrete was exposed, finished with a penetrative sealer for concretes.
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As a form of non-penetrative sex, it can be done for its own enjoyment or as foreplay before other activities, such as oral sex.
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In Rooney's absence Nani was United's most penetrative player, his confidence epitomised by the way he waltzed through Stoke's defence to slide a left-foot shot past Begovic for the opening goal.
Manchester United caught short by tweaks, Twitter and tall strikers 2011
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That would depend, of course, on how a particular statute defines “sodomy,” but since Article 125 makes very specific reference to “penetration,” it would appear that non-penetrative sexual activities, such as frottage and mutual masturbation, are technically excluded.
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