Definitions for penetrative

penetrative pen·e·tra·tive

Spelling: [pen-i-trey-tiv]
IPA: /ˈpɛn ɪˌtreɪ tɪv/

Penetrative is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 601 anagrams from letters in penetrative (aeeeinprttv).

Definitions for penetrative

adjective

  1. tending to penetrate; piercing.
  2. acute; keen.

Origin of penetrative

First recorded in 1375-1425; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word penetrātīvus. See penetrate, -ive<

Examples for penetrative

While speaking, he still bent his penetrative eye upon them, nor withdrew it till they had reached the bottom of the stairs.

Hence the afterthought of the decorative but penetrative ironwork.

As a critic he was penetrative, comprehensive, and impartial.

You feel, with regard to the foregoing criticism, that it is as just as it is penetrative.

A penetrative word or a heroic gesture might lose them the day.

It was a womans voice, rather low, but with a penetrative quality in it: a peculiar voice, both in timbre and intonation.

The pleading was crafty, and it was penetrative in the avoidance of stress.

He has a voice not dissimilar in timbre and penetrative ability to the incredibly annoying comedian Stephen Merchant.

Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.

She had at this another, but a sharper, of her penetrative pauses.

Word Value for penetrative
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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