Found 3 items, similar to Penetrating.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: penetrate bidas, membobolkan, mendobrak, menembus, menghunjam, menjebol, menyusup, meresap, molos
English → English (WordNet) Definition: penetrating penetrating adj 1: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; “an acute observer of politics and politicians”; “incisive comments”; “icy knifelike reasoning”; “as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang”; “penetrating insight”; “frequent penetrative observations” [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp] 2: tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing; “a toxic penetrative spray applied to the surface”; “a cold penetrating wind”; “a penetrating odor” [syn: penetrative]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Penetrating Penetrating \Pen"e*tra`ting\, a. 1. Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor. [1913 Webster] 2. Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind. [1913 Webster] Penetrate \Pen"e*trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penetrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Penetrating.] [L. penetratus, p. p. of penetrare to penetrate; akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the power of, penus store of food, innermost part of a temple.] 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. [1913 Webster] 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] 3. To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand. [1913 Webster] Things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate. --Ray. [1913 Webster]