porous

/pˈɔɹəs/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. able to absorb fluids
   “the partly porous walls of our digestive system”
2. full of pores or vessels or holes
3. allowing passage in and out
   “our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous”

Synonyms for porous

• permeable
• poriferous
• porose
• holey
• leaky

Antonyms of porous

• nonporous

Words that rhyme with porous

• chorus
• sorus
• brontosaurus
• stegosaurus
• thesaurus
• tyrannosaurus
• dilophosaurus
• goris
• maquiladoras
• maurus
• mcmorris
• torras