Word Meanings - PENETRATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor. 2. Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENETRATING)

• Acute
• Pointed
• penetrating
• sagacious
• perspicacious
• keen
• astute
• piercing
• sharp
• shrewd
• keen-sighted
• severe
• distressing
• Astute
• Crafty
• knowing
• discriminating
• acute
• discerning
• Deep
• Profound
• subterranean
• submerged
• designing
• abstruse
• recondite
• learned
• low
• thick
• obscure
• mysterious
• occult
• Intense
• heartfelt
• Knowing
• Shrewd
• proficient
• skillful
• intelligent
• experienced
• well-informed
• accomplished
• fathomless
• abysmal
• intimate
• solemn
• philosophical
• strong
• vivid
• intense
• deepseated

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PENETRATING)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to PENETRATING)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• SOLEMN
  Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.