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[syn: permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pervasive \Per*va"sive\ (p[~e]r*v[=a]"s[i^]v), a.
Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of
a pervading quality. "Civilization pervasive and general."
--M. Arnold.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pervasive
adj 1: spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative
irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor
of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to
more than one conclusion" [syn: permeant, permeating,
permeative, pervasive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pervasive":
absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
born, broad-based, clean, clear, comprehensive, congenital,
consummate, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious,
exhaustive, general, inescapable, intensive, omnibus, omnipresent,
out-and-out, outright, penetrating, perfect, permeating,
permeative, pervading, plain, plumb, prevalent, pure, radical,
regular, sheer, straight, suffusing, suffusive, sweeping, thorough,
thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous,
unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved,
unrestricted, utter, veritable, wholesale, widespread