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See definition of penetrating on Dictionary.com
  • adj.stinging, harsh
  • adj.intelligent

synonyms for penetrating

  • biting
  • piercing
  • trenchant
  • carrying
  • clear-cut
  • crisp
  • cutting
  • edged
  • entering
  • forcing
  • infiltrating
  • permeating
  • pointed
  • shrill
  • going through
  • ingoing
  • intrusive
  • passing through
  • penetrant
  • pervasive
  • pungent
  • sharp
  • strong
See also synonyms for: penetratingly

antonyms for penetrating

MOST RELEVANT
  • kind
  • nice
  • weak
  • soft
  • blunt
  • dull
  • idiotic
  • senseless
  • stupid
  • unintelligent
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How to use penetrating in a sentence

Now, Fermi was doing something similar, but with a more penetrating probe.
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Calm under fire, he possessed a sure and penetrating coup d'œil; he had great experience in war.
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He had a loose hairy benignant face with a humorous but penetrating eye and the usual domelike brow.
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It was shrill, it was penetrating, it rose and fell with a sort of ripping, tearing slash.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
Now and then - 63 -he turns his head slowly as he leads, and rests these keen, penetrating orbs on the sea of dancers below him.
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Some were for trying a new line of road, and for penetrating into Guzerat through Rajpootana.
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The country into which they were penetrating is one of the most remarkable in the world for its physical peculiarities.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
Zizi's penetrating glance overcame Molly's boldness and she trembled in silence as Zizi said, "by marriage!"
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Frozen by the sharp, penetrating north wind, Marie's teeth began to chatter convulsively.
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One of the latter struck my knee with force enough to wound the bone without penetrating the grained-leather boot-leg.
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WORDS RELATED TO PENETRATING

  • astute
  • canny
  • clever
  • discerning
  • discriminating
  • incisive
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intense
  • intuitive
  • judicious
  • keen
  • observant
  • penetrating
  • perspicacious
  • piercing
  • quick-witted
  • sensitive
  • sharp
  • smart
  • subtle
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