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Definition of Penetrative

1. Adjective. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions. "Frequent penetrative observations"

2. Adjective. Tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing. "A penetrating odor"

Definition of Penetrative

1. a. Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun.

Definition of Penetrative

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or involving penetration ¹

2. Adjective. Having the ability to penetrate ¹

3. Adjective. Displaying insight or discrimination; acute ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Penetrative

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Penetrative

1. 1. Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. "His look became keen and penetrative." (Hawthorne) 2. Having the power to affect or impress the mind or heart; impressive; as, penetrative shame. 3. Acute; discerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom. "The penetrative eye." "Led on by skill of penetrative soul." (Grainger) Origin: Cf. F. Penetratif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Penetrative

penetrates penetratest penetrating penetrating injury penetrating keratoplasty penetrating trauma penetrating ulcer penetrating wound penetratingly penetratingness

penetration bomb penetration test penetration tests penetrations penetrative (current term) penetratively penetrativeness penetrator penetrators penetrometer

penetrometers penfieldite penfish penfishes penfluridol penfold penfolds penfriend

Literary usage of Penetrative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"This knowledge, this intuitive and penetrative perception, is still one of the forms, the highest, of imagination, but there is no combination of images ..."

2. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1873)
"This knowledge, this intuitive and penetrative perception, is still one of the forms, the highest, of imagination, but there is no combination of images ..."

3. Syphilis and Public Health by Edward Bright Vedder (1918)
"These embrace (1) the penetrative powers of the treponema or its ability to penetrate sound skin or mucous membrane, and (2) the tendency for these ..."

4. The Art Teaching of John Ruskin by William Gershom Collingwood (1891)
"penetrative Imagination.—It is not only in combining simple conceptions that the Imagination is useful, but it has another office, namely, ..."

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