permeating

Thân thiện

The smell of garlic is permeating the entire kitchen.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Spreading throughout; pervading: Describes something that spreads through and saturates every part of a thing, place, or concept. It implies a thorough and widespread presence or influence.

Usage

The adjective permeating is used to describe a quality, feeling, or substance that is present and diffused through every part of something. It emphasizes a deep and all-encompassing saturation.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • A permeating sense of calm filled the monastery.
  • The permeating humidity made the air feel heavy.
  • She addressed the permeating culture of fear in the organization.

Advanced Usage

• As a participial adjective: Often used in its present participle form to function as an adjective, directly modifying a noun to indicate an active, ongoing process of spreading through.
  • The permeating influence of social media is undeniable.

Variants and Related Words

• Permeate (verb): To spread or diffuse through.
  • The smell of baking bread permeated the house.
• Permeation (noun): The process of spreading through something.
  • The permeation of new ideas can be slow.
• Pervasive (adjective): Synonym meaning spreading widely throughout an area or group of people.
  • Technology has a pervasive impact on daily life.

Synonyms

• Pervasive
• Penetrating
• Pervading
• Diffusive
• Ubiquitous (when emphasizing being found everywhere)

Antonyms

• Superficial
• Spotty
• Localized
• Limited

Học thuật

Adjective

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• permeant
• permeative
• pervasive