permeative

1. 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”

   Synonymspermeantpermeatingpervasive

   Similardistributive

Questions about permeative

What does permeative mean?

permeative means "spreading or spread throughout".

How many syllables are in permeative?

permeative has 4 syllables: per-me-a-tive. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for permeative?

Close synonyms include permeant, permeating, pervasive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is permeative a common word?

permeative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.