PENETRATING Synonyms

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• quick to understand

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• suitable for cutting or piercing

• exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception

• having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree

• possessing sound knowledge

• exercising or showing good judgment

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• of or relating to perception

• having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

• of the greatest intensity; complete

• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

• coming from deep within one

• (of sleep) deep and complete

• situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• acting with a specific goal

• situated at the bottom or lowest position

• the lower side of anything

• the lowest part of anything

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

• the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat

• a depression forming the ground under a body of water

• low-lying alluvial land near a river

• a cargo ship

• the lowest rank

• provide with a bottom or a seat

• strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

• come to understand

• a short light metallic sound

• a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)

• a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

• depression of a button on a computer mouse

• move or strike with a noise

• make a clicking or ticking sound

• click repeatedly or uncontrollably

• cause to make a snapping sound

• produce a click

• make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

• become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

• the first light of day

• the earliest period

• an opening time period

• become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

• appear or develop

• become light

• (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected

• spread out; not concentrated in one place

• lacking conciseness

• move outward

• spread or diffuse through

• cause to become widely known

• a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth

• (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore

• come to understand

• measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

• spread or diffuse through

• fill, soak, or imbue totally

• suffuse with color

• cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices

• enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members

• pass into or through by filtering or permeating

• pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict