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pervasive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pervasive has 1 sense
- pervasive(s = adj.all) permeant, permeating, permeative - 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" Derived forms verb pervade1, noun pervasiveness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pervasive, a.
Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of a pervading quality. M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pervasive, adj.
1 pervading.
2 able to pervade.
1 pervading.
2 able to pervade.
Derivative
pervasively adv. pervasiveness n.
THESAURUS
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
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