1.
[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]