Definitions for penetrable

penetrable pen·e·tra·ble

Spelling: [pen-i-truh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈpɛn ɪ trə bəl/

Penetrable is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 501 anagrams from letters in penetrable (abeeelnprt).

Definitions for penetrable

adjective

  1. capable of being penetrated.

Origin of penetrable

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin penetrābilis, equivalent to penetrā(re) to penetrate + -bilis -ble

Examples for penetrable

Actually, he had placed his soldiers in a most penetrable trap.

Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to superstition.

The one penetrable point in his ironclad nature had not been reached yet.

But this is not how you understand the matter: you mean accessible to the sting, in a word, penetrable.

Before calcination it is of a grey colour, is not penetrable by water, and takes a polish.

The penetrable gloom there, and the growing apprehension concerning the countess and Nevil, tore her to pieces.

The lady had seen much of foreign life—had travelled in every penetrable country, and her wealth seemed as great as her beauty.

The thoughtless objection about the only penetrable points is, I hope, swept aside forever.

The skin is, in some parts, so thick and hard as scarcely to be penetrable by the sharpest sabre, or even by a musket-ball.

If it is nothing, nothing can have no quality; yet you tell me that it is penetrable and immense.

Word Value for penetrable
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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