"penetrating" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪtɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-penetrating.ogg Forms: more penetrating [comparative], most penetrating [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} penetrating (comparative more penetrating, superlative most penetrating)
  1. able to pierce or penetrate Translations (able to pierce or penetrate): проникващ (pronikvašt) (Bulgarian), пронизващ (pronizvašt) (Bulgarian), läpitunkeva (Finnish), viiltävä (Finnish), pénétrant (French), tolltach (Irish), penetrālis (Latin), про́дорен (pródoren) (Macedonian), про́бивен (próbiven) (Macedonian), tīwharawhara (note: of a voice) (Maori), نافذ (nâfez) (Persian), прони́кливий (pronýklyvyj) (Ukrainian), treiddgar (Welsh), treiddiol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-penetrating-en-adj-eMi1~dxI Disambiguation of 'able to pierce or penetrate': 93 5 2
  2. looking deeply into; piercing
    Sense id: en-penetrating-en-adj-gn~coyFI
  3. demonstrating acute or keen understanding Translations (demonstrating keen understanding): проницателен (pronicatelen) (Bulgarian), indringend (Dutch), viiltävä (Finnish), syvällinen (Finnish), про́никлив (prónikliv) (Macedonian), прони́кливий (pronýklyvyj) (Ukrainian), treiddgar (Welsh), craff (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-penetrating-en-adj--pTOuDfx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 22 61 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 16 56 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 16 64 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 10 76 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 25 52 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 12 19 53 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 12 25 52 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 12 19 54 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 12 24 54 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 9 18 61 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 12 27 51 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 12 25 52 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 12 27 51 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 12 25 52 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 12 19 54 16 Disambiguation of 'demonstrating keen understanding': 4 12 84

Verb

IPA: /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪtɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-penetrating.ogg
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} penetrating
  1. present participle and gerund of penetrate Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: penetrate
    Sense id: en-penetrating-en-verb-4prgvFNu
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          "roman": "próbiven",
          "sense": "able to pierce or penetrate",
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          "sense": "able to pierce or penetrate",
          "word": "نافذ"
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          "word": "treiddgar"
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          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "demonstrating keen understanding",
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      "sense": "able to pierce or penetrate",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.