penetrative
/ˈpɛnɪtrətɪv/
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American sound/ˈpɛnɪtrətɪv/
penetrative
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pe - net - ra - tive -> penetrative
Myanmar meaning
(adj) မိန်းမအင်္ဂါဇာတ်တွင်းသို့ယောကျ်ားအင်္ဂါဇာတ်ထိုးသွင်းမှုရှိသော။ နက်ရှိုင်းစွာထိုးထွင်းသဘောပေါက်သော။ စူးရောက်သော။
Full entry
penetrative /'penÇtrǝtÇv; US -treÇtÇv/ adj
၁။ မိန်းမ အင်္ဂါဇာတ် တွင်းသို့ ယောကျ်ားအင်္ဂါဇာတ် ထိုးသွင်းမှု ရှိသော။ penetrative sex.
၂။ နက်ရှိုင်းစွာ ထိုးထွင်း သဘောပေါက်သော။ စူးရောက်သော။ a penetrative analysis.
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Synonyms
acute, adroit, agile, alert, apt, astute, awake, aware, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, clever, conscious, critical, cute, discerning, discreet, discriminating, ear to the ground, facetious, fast, foxy, gnostic, having smarts, humorous, incisive, infiltratory, ingenious, insighted, insightful, intelligent, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, knows what's what, nimble, nimble-witted, nobody's fool, not born yesterday, observant, on the ball, original, penetrant, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, permeating, perspicacious, pervasive, piercing, profound, 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
Antonyms
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, unperceptive, unstylish
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