Word Meanings - PENETRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to

Additional info about word: PENETRATE

akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity. Shak. The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style. M. Arnold. 3. To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand. Things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate. Ray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENETRATE)

• Bore
• Perforate
• pierce
• weary
• penetrate
• Delve
• Dig
• dive
• investigate
• search
• Discern
• Descry
• observe
• recognize
• see
• distinguish
• discover
• behold
• discriminate
• differentiate
• separate
• perceive
• Enter
• Invade
• Pierce
• bore
• drill
• excite
• affect
• rouse
• touch
• move
• enter
• stab
• transfix

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PENETRATE)

• Pretermit
• disregard
• abandon
• misinvestigate

Related words: (words related to PENETRATE)

• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• INVADE
  1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• ENTEROLITH
  An intestinal concretion.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• BEHOLDING
  Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• INVADER
  One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REENTERING
  The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• ANENTEROUS
  Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.