Synonyms for penetrative
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pen-i-trey-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn ɪˌtreɪ tɪv |
Top 10 synonyms for penetrative Other synonyms for the word penetrative
- acute
- adroit
- agile
- alert
- apt
- awake
- aware
- brainy
- bright
- brilliant
- canny
- clever
- conscious
- critical
- cute
- discerning
- discriminating
- ear to the ground
- facetious
- foxy
- gnostic
- having smarts
- humorous
- ingenious
- insighted
- intuitive
- judicious
- keen
- knowing
- knowledgeable
- knows what's what
- nimble-witted
- nobody's fool
- not born yesterday
- observant
- on the ball
- original
- penetrative
- percipient
- perspicacious
- prompt
- quick
- quick on the draw
- quick on the trigger
- quick on the uptake
- quick-witted
- rational
- ready
- resourceful
- responsive
- sagacious
- sage
- savvy
- searching
- sensitive
- sharp
- sharp as a tack
- sharp-sighted
- sharp-witted
- shrewd
- slick
- smart
- smart as a tack
- sophic
- subtle
- tuned in
- understanding
- whiz
- wired
- wise
- wise to
- witty
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for penetrative
- aboveboard
- benevolent
- bland
- blunt
- boring
- calm
- careless
- clumsy
- dark
- dense
- dull
- flat
- foolish
- forthright
- frank
- honest
- idiotic
- ignorant
- imbecile
- indefinite
- indistinct
- insensitive
- kind
- lazy
- low
- mild
- moderate
- nice
- normal
- old-fashioned
- senseless
- shallow
- slow
- slow-witted
- stupid
- tasteless
- thoughtless
- typical
- unaware
- undefined
- undiscerning
- undiscriminating
- uneducated
- unintelligent
- unobservant
- unstylish
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