If something is full of tiny holes or openings, you can describe it as porous. A sponge is porous, and if the border between countries is open for anyone to cross easily, it too can be called porous.
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids;
Adjective
full of pores or vessels or holes
Adjective S.
allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
Adjective S.
able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"
n.
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the
substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids;
permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.
Porous
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids;
Usage Examples
The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
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