Antonyms for penetrative


Grammar : Adj
Spell : pen-i-trey-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn ɪˌtreɪ tɪv


Definition of penetrative

  • As in insightful : adj perceptive
  • As in penetrating : adj intelligent
  • As in perceptive : adj alert, sensitive
  • As in quick-witted : adj smart
  • As in sharp : adj perceptive, quick-witted
Example sentences :
  • A penetrative word or a heroic gesture might lose them the day.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
  • The pleading was crafty, and it was penetrative in the avoidance of stress.
  • Extract from : « The Amazing Marriage, Complete » by George Meredith
  • She had at this another, but a sharper, of her penetrative pauses.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of Life » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • Hence the afterthought of the decorative but penetrative ironwork.
  • Extract from : « The Old Inns of Old England, Volume I (of 2) » by Charles G. Harper
  • As a critic he was penetrative, comprehensive, and impartial.
  • Extract from : « A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations » by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
  • You feel, with regard to the foregoing criticism, that it is as just as it is penetrative.
  • Extract from : « French Classics » by William Cleaver Wilkinson
  • Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
  • Extract from : « Babbitt » by Sinclair Lewis
  • While speaking, he still bent his penetrative eye upon them, nor withdrew it till they had reached the bottom of the stairs.
  • Extract from : « The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • It was a womans voice, rather low, but with a penetrative quality in it: a peculiar voice, both in timbre and intonation.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Julian Hawthorne
  • After a series of penetrative flashes, flattering to her intelligence the more startling they were, reflection was exhausted.
  • Extract from : « Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete » by George Meredith

Synonyms for penetrative

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