917 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pˈɛnɪtɹˌe͡ɪtɪŋ], [ pˈɛnɪtɹˌe‍ɪtɪŋ], [ p_ˈɛ_n_ɪ_t_ɹ_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for penetrating:

• acute (adjective)
• all (adjective)
• analytic/analytical (adjective)
• analytical (adjective)
• biting (adjective)
• brilliant (adjective)
• chilly (adjective)
• clairvoyant (adjective)
• cold (adjective)
• crisp (adjective)
• critical (adjective)
• cutting (adjective)
• deep (adjective)
• discerning (adjective)
• discriminating (adjective)
• earsplitting (adjective)
• freezing (adjective)
• high (adjective)
• impressive (adjective)
• incisive (adjective)
• insightful (adjective)
• intelligent (adjective)
• intimate (adjective)
• inward (adjective)
• keen (adjective)
• loud (adjective)
• observant (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• overcritical (adjective)
• perceptive (adjective)
• perspicacious (adjective)
• piercing (adjective)
• poignant (adjective)
• profound (adjective)
• pungent (adjective)
• quick-witted (adjective)
• right (adjective)
• searching (adjective)
• sharp (adjective)
• shrewd (adjective)
• shrill (adjective)
• stinging (adjective)
• stinging, harsh (adjective)
• subtle (adjective)
• trenchant (adjective)
• witty (adjective)
• discriminating (noun)
• incisive (noun)
• knifelike (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• infusing (verb)
• inserting (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• perforating (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• permeating
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for penetrating

Synonyms for Penetrating:

• adj.

  • acute (adjective)
  • in-tensest,
  • in tenser,
  • in-tense,
  • dis-criminating,
  • more acute,
  • in tense,
  • in-tenser,
  • dis criminating,
  • in tensest.
  • all (adjective)
  • penetrating.
  • analytic/analytical (adjective)
  • well grounded,
  • questioning,
  • valid,
  • de tailed,
  • ratiocinative,
  • in quiring,
  • most problem-solving,
  • more problem solving,
  • more thorough,
  • most questioning,
  • logical,
  • de-tailed,
  • most problem solving,
  • wellgrounded,
  • in-quiring,
  • more valid,
  • more testing,
  • more dissecting,
  • dis crete,
  • more reasonable,
  • most dissecting,
  • more questioning,
  • most thorough,
  • problemsolving,
  • most problemsolving,
  • more problem-solving,
  • problem solving,
  • more precise,
  • dis-crete,
  • most testing,
  • more problemsolving.
  • analytical (adjective)
  • more reasonably,
  • most reasonably.
  • biting (adjective)
  • most nipping,
  • more nipping,
  • most blighting,
  • more blighting.
  • brilliant (adjective)
  • whippest,
  • most eggheaded,
  • most genius,
  • more einstein,
  • more talented,
  • more genius,
  • most knowledgeable,
  • more eggheaded,
  • most einstein.
  • chilly (adjective)
  • draftier,
  • draftiest,
  • more icebox,
  • more hawkish,
  • most hawkish,
  • most icebox,
  • snappy.
  • clairvoyant (adjective)
  • Long-sighted,
  • clear-sighted,
  • extrasensory,
  • longsighted,
  • second-sighted,
  • sibylline,
  • visionary,
  • telepathic,
  • farseeing,
  • clearsighted,
  • far-sighted,
  • spiritualistic.
  • cold (adjective)
  • have goose bumps,
  • chilly,
  • numbing,
  • sleety,
  • below freezing,
  • hiemal,
  • hyperborean,
  • gelid,
  • two-dog night,
  • algid,
  • rimy,
  • below zero,
  • one-dog night,
  • brumal,
  • frore,
  • shivery,
  • iced.
  • crisp (adjective)
  • most piquing,
  • more piquing,
  • clearcut.
  • critical (adjective)
  • nit-picking,
  • calumniatory,
  • reproachful,
  • Exceptive,
  • Cavillous.
  • cutting (adjective)
  • in goinger,
  • in going,
  • most wounding,
  • scathing,
  • ingoinger,
  • ingoingest,
  • in goingest,
  • in-goinger,
  • more wounding,
  • In-going,
  • in-goingest.
  • deep (adjective)
  • hard to understand,
  • wisest,
  • orphic,
  • hermetic.
  • discerning (adjective)
  • most insighted,
  • more gnostic,
  • more percipient,
  • in sighted,
  • most percipient,
  • in-sighted,
  • most gnostic,
  • gnostic,
  • more insighted.
  • discriminating (adjective)
  • discerning.
  • earsplitting (adjective)
  • ringing.
  • freezing (adjective)
  • more frost bound,
  • more frost-bound,
  • most frost bound,
  • more frostbound,
  • most frost-bound,
  • most frostbound,
  • frost bound.
  • high (adjective)
  • shrieky,
  • shrilly,
  • treble,
  • piping.
  • impressive (adjective)
  • most welldone,
  • most well-done,
  • aweinspiring,
  • in spiring,
  • most well done,
  • ex citing,
  • ex cited,
  • more welldone,
  • more well done,
  • welldone,
  • more well-done,
  • well-done,
  • ex-cited,
  • awe inspiring,
  • in-spiring,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • well done,
  • impressive.
  • incisive (adjective)
  • most drilling,
  • more drilling,
  • mordant.
  • insightful (adjective)
  • under-standing,
  • knows what what,
  • more penetrative,
  • ear the ground,
  • most penetrative,
  • ear to ground,
  • under standing,
  • ear ground,
  • knows whats what.
  • intelligent (adjective)
  • sagacious,
  • Sharp-witted,
  • more intelligent,
  • all there,
  • well-informed,
  • astute.
  • intimate (adjective)
  • in dwelling,
  • inner-most,
  • indwelling,
  • in born,
  • deep seated,
  • trusted,
  • most viscerous,
  • up tight,
  • deepseated,
  • in-born,
  • up-tight,
  • inner most,
  • in most,
  • more viscerous,
  • in bred,
  • inmost,
  • in-grained,
  • in-bred,
  • in-most,
  • in-dwelling.
  • inward (adjective)
  • inpouring,
  • inbound,
  • inflowing.
  • keen (adjective)
  • more honed,
  • most edged,
  • razor sharp,
  • most razor sharp,
  • more unblunted,
  • more razor sharp,
  • razorsharp,
  • un blunted,
  • most razor-sharp,
  • most honed,
  • most razorsharp,
  • more razor-sharp,
  • most unblunted,
  • un-blunted,
  • more edged,
  • more razorsharp.
  • loud (adjective)
  • earsplitting.
  • observant (adjective)
  • on ones toes,
  • more deducing,
  • sharp eyed,
  • most advertent,
  • most intentive,
  • more detecting,
  • more sharpeyed,
  • more discovering,
  • eagleeyed,
  • more advertent,
  • dis covering,
  • most detecting,
  • more intentive,
  • more observative,
  • most discovering,
  • most observative,
  • most contemplating,
  • eagle eyed,
  • more sharp-eyed,
  • more surveying,
  • more contemplating,
  • dis-covering,
  • more sharp eyed,
  • not missing trick,
  • most sharp eyed,
  • most deducing,
  • sharpeyed,
  • wide awake,
  • most sharpeyed,
  • most surveying,
  • most sharp-eyed,
  • on one toes.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • on one's toes,
  • Unblunted,
  • deep,
  • wideawake,
  • up on,
  • aculeate,
  • sharp-sighted,
  • drafty,
  • pungent,
  • insighted,
  • freezing,
  • sharp-eyed,
  • streetwise,
  • ingoing,
  • INDEPTH,
  • wise to,
  • perspicacious,
  • intelligent,
  • quick on the uptake,
  • shark,
  • cutting,
  • poignant,
  • shrewd,
  • probing,
  • Intentive,
  • in the pink,
  • subtle,
  • clairvoyant,
  • acute,
  • sharp as a tack,
  • Sophic,
  • on top of,
  • not missing a trick,
  • searching,
  • perceptive,
  • biting,
  • Acroamatic,
  • icebox,
  • frostbound,
  • problem-solving,
  • knows what's what,
  • nimble-witted,
  • on toes,
  • viscerous,
  • in good health,
  • keen,
  • brilliant,
  • advertent,
  • razor-sharp,
  • critical,
  • quick on the draw,
  • Observative,
  • ear to the ground,
  • up to par,
  • cold,
  • on the inside,
  • extra ordinary,
  • percipient,
  • penetrative,
  • in depth,
  • tuned in,
  • Astucious,
  • crisp,
  • trenchant,
  • observing,
  • eggheaded,
  • clear cut,
  • intimate,
  • whipper,
  • zesty,
  • in the know,
  • hawkish,
  • frost-bound,
  • quick-witted,
  • high,
  • shrill,
  • insightful,
  • Stentorious,
  • profound.
  • overcritical (adjective)
  • over critical.
  • perceptive (adjective)
  • more sophic,
  • most sophic.
  • perspicacious (adjective)
  • sharp witted,
  • sharpwitted.
  • piercing (adjective)
  • most stentorious,
  • more stentorious,
  • most shattering,
  • more racking,
  • more shooting,
  • more shattering,
  • most shooting,
  • roaring,
  • most racking.
  • poignant (adjective)
  • zestier,
  • zestiest.
  • profound (adjective)
  • most acroamatic,
  • pro founder,
  • pro-found,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro found,
  • more acroamatic.
  • pungent (adjective)
  • saltest,
  • pro vocative,
  • pro-vocative,
  • salter.
  • quick-witted (adjective)
  • quickwitted,
  • most sharp sighted,
  • more sharp sighted,
  • most sharpsighted,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • quick the draw,
  • nimblewitted,
  • most nimble witted,
  • nimble witted,
  • more sharpsighted,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • quick on draw,
  • sharp as tack,
  • quick draw,
  • more nimble witted,
  • sharp sighted,
  • quick witted,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • quick on uptake,
  • quick uptake,
  • most sharp-sighted,
  • more sharp-sighted,
  • sharpsighted,
  • quick the uptake,
  • more nimblewitted.
  • right (adjective)
  • up par,
  • un impaired,
  • un-impaired,
  • in pink.
  • searching (adjective)
  • exploratory,
  • fact-finding.
  • sharp (adjective)
  • nobody's fool,
  • having smarts,
  • quick on the trigger,
  • smart as a tack,
  • quick on trigger.
  • shrewd (adjective)
  • under hand,
  • most streetwise,
  • on inside,
  • wised up,
  • Sharker,
  • most astucious,
  • shrewdest,
  • more astucious,
  • sharkest,
  • in know,
  • most argute,
  • under-hand,
  • in side,
  • more argute,
  • more streetwise.
  • shrill (adjective)
  • Caterwauling,
  • jangling,
  • ear-piercing,
  • clangorous,
  • high-pitched,
  • grating,
  • scratching,
  • whistling,
  • reedy,
  • rasping,
  • harsh,
  • whining,
  • hoarse,
  • jarring,
  • squealing,
  • shrieking,
  • strident,
  • screeching,
  • clanging,
  • squeaky,
  • screaming,
  • creaky,
  • scraping,
  • raucous.
  • stinging (adjective)
  • more aculeate,
  • most aculeate.
  • stinging, harsh (adjective)
  • going through,
  • intrusive,
  • Carrying,
  • passing through,
  • Forcing.
  • subtle (adjective)
  • hairline,
  • understated,
  • implied.
  • trenchant (adjective)
  • to the point,
  • the point.
  • witty (adjective)
  • campiest,
  • campy,
  • campier,
  • epigrammatic.

• n.

  •
  • academic,
  • quick,
  • smart,
  • wise,
  • bright,
  • able.
  •
  • awake to something,
  • informed,
  • omniscient,
  • aware,
  • familiar with something,
  • conversant,
  • clued up,
  • au fait,
  • knowledgeable.
  •
  • careful,
  • brittle,
  • breathy,
  • adenoidal,
  • flat,
  • fruity,
  • croaky,
  • dead,
  • sensitive,
  • appealing,
  • disembodied.
  •
  • worldwide,
  • ubiquitous,
  • far-flung,
  • generalized,
  • all over the place,
  • widespread,
  • nationwide,
  • scattered,
  • diffuse,
  • countrywide.
  • discriminating (noun)
  • discriminating.
  • incisive (noun)
  • incisive.
  • knifelike (noun)
  • knifelike.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • piercing.

• v.

  • infusing (verb)
  • Saturating,
  • pervading,
  • seething,
  • Glutting,
  • Imbuing,
  • filling,
  • instilling,
  • Infusing,
  • soaking,
  • Suffusing,
  • permeating,
  • Impregnating.
  • inserting (verb)
  • Interposing,
  • Inserting,
  • Embedding,
  • Implanting,
  • Introducing,
  • Insinuating,
  • Infiltrating,
  • Injecting,
  • lodging,
  • intruding.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • alert.
  • perforating (verb)
  • drilling,
  • poking,
  • needling,
  • Perforating,
  • Skewering,
  • Lancing,
  • Puncturing,
  • pointing,
  • Spiking,
  • sticking,
  • Punching,
  • Spearing,
  • boring,
  • Gouging.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • thoughtful,
  • inward,
  • observant,
  • analytical.
  •
  • glaring.
  •
  • following,
  • gentle,
  • force,
  • gusty,
  • the Beaufort scale,
  • gale-force,
  • easterly,
  • east.
  • Other relevant words:
  • bang up.
  • permeating
  • through and through.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • pragmatic,
  • awake,
  • keening,
  • destroy,
  • barbed,
  • excitable,
  • deafening,
  • arresting,
  • clear-cut,
  • aromatic,
  • frosty,
  • vigorous,
  • openly,
  • businesslike,
  • thin,
  • rabid,
  • sapid,
  • Comprehending,
  • great,
  • inescapable,
  • evidently,
  • fairly,
  • raving,
  • explicit,
  • acerbate,
  • moving,
  • privy,
  • Familiarly,
  • enthralling,
  • gripping,
  • heartfelt,
  • dream,
  • acrimonious,
  • intimately,
  • fascinating,
  • ingenious,
  • omnipresent,
  • enter,
  • entrancing,
  • permeative,
  • tracking,
  • attack,
  • hot,
  • express,
  • frigid,
  • wide-awake,
  • Clear-headed,
  • apperceptive,
  • agonizing,
  • high frequency,
  • crossing,
  • unemotional,
  • mordacious,
  • private,
  • Hard-headed,
  • arch,
  • Intime,
  • appear,
  • transparence,
  • Ear-splitting,
  • Keener,
  • hurtful,
  • surviving,
  • pass through,
  • covering,
  • intelligible,
  • foreseeing,
  • loud,
  • methodical,
  • Longheaded,
  • intellectual,
  • perfectly,
  • pervasive,
  • sharp,
  • clearly,
  • brand,
  • scorching,
  • understand,
  • positively,
  • article,
  • inclement,
  • specter,
  • groovy,
  • lowly,
  • peppery,
  • discriminate,
  • corroding,
  • Pinching,
  • ice-encrusted,
  • icy,
  • entering,
  • ice-cold,
  • highly,
  • witty,
  • foraying,
  • infiltration,
  • nervous,
  • Punchy,
  • cogent,
  • scholarly,
  • dawning,
  • stone-cold,
  • feverish,
  • glacial,
  • entrance,
  • polar,
  • perforation,
  • irritating,
  • badly,
  • cognizant,
  • dandy,
  • cracking,
  • puncture,
  • appercipient,
  • rough,
  • Flicking,
  • consuming,
  • clear-eyed,
  • touching,
  • vitriolic,
  • right,
  • soprano,
  • damp,
  • rigorous,
  • sharp-worded,
  • distinctly,
  • incision,
  • imagination,
  • sincerely,
  • sharply,
  • Asperous,
  • acuate,
  • screaky,
  • needlelike,
  • vehement,
  • Traversing,
  • foresighted,
  • vital,
  • bitterly cold,
  • view,
  • acidic,
  • brisk,
  • fully,
  • good,
  • fierce,
  • Bottoming,
  • sword,
  • tangy,
  • well-read,
  • arctic,
  • lancinate,
  • keenness,
  • honeycombing,
  • Ululant,
  • forethoughtful,
  • erudite,
  • savage,
  • manage,
  • contacting,
  • chilling,
  • understandable,
  • Sinewed,
  • distressing,
  • succeeding,
  • nifty,
  • bully,
  • specific,
  • deeply,
  • Clucking,
  • acuteness,
  • imperative,
  • agile,
  • double-edged,
  • thoroughly,
  • caustic,
  • nipping,
  • ticking,
  • sardonic,
  • cold as death,
  • eagerness,
  • prevalent,
  • inroad,
  • strongly,
  • homefelt,
  • perspicuous,
  • canny,
  • really,
  • smashing,
  • detailed,
  • fine,
  • precipitous,
  • sarcastic,
  • astringent,
  • brainy,
  • striking,
  • properly,
  • pervade,
  • apparently,
  • plainly,
  • judicious,
  • effective,
  • prying,
  • powerful,
  • systematic,
  • sensational,
  • impetuous,
  • complete,
  • sight,
  • edgy,
  • nippy,
  • sage,
  • piquant,
  • flavourful,
  • learned,
  • Transfixing,
  • cool,
  • acrid,
  • violent,
  • tasty,
  • boreal,
  • practical,
  • ardor,
  • absolutely,
  • subzero,
  • satirical,
  • Penetrant,
  • intense,
  • Clicking,
  • wintery,
  • truely,
  • suffocating,
  • acuity,
  • cunning,
  • Clacking,
  • luminous,
  • admission,
  • forceful,
  • secret,
  • spellbinding,
  • gimlet,
  • Keen-witted,
  • spicy,
  • Escharotic,
  • vision,
  • penetration,
  • corking,
  • hard-nosed,
  • provident,
  • cold as charity,
  • slashing,
  • clever,
  • sounding,
  • penetrate,
  • interpenetrating,
  • let out,
  • rapier,
  • stringent,
  • chill,
  • acutely,
  • reeking,
  • deprive,
  • general,
  • sudden,
  • icelike,
  • calculating,
  • invading,
  • Fathoming,
  • painful,
  • invasion,
  • chattering,
  • fanatical,
  • abrupt,
  • intrusion,
  • farsighted,
  • tart,
  • cold as ice,
  • lancinating,
  • acidulent,
  • instantly,
  • knowing,
  • edged,
  • gutsy,
  • truly,
  • thorough,
  • clear,
  • excruciating,
  • deep-felt,
  • oppressive,
  • indelible,
  • exhaustive,
  • peachy,
  • corrosive,
  • uncompromising,
  • hibernal,
  • erupting,
  • acidulous,
  • directly,
  • sinewy,
  • overcritical,
  • sharpen,
  • forcible,
  • shooting,
  • strive,
  • virulent,
  • manifestly,
  • correctly,
  • honestly,
  • Filtering,
  • very good,
  • door,
  • hidden,
  • absorbing,
  • incursion,
  • stinging,
  • slushy,
  • hard,
  • acid,
  • guessing,
  • unmistakable,
  • quite,
  • stabbing,
  • snapping,
  • spiny,
  • screechy,
  • wailing,
  • howling,
  • entry,
  • universal,
  • penetratingly,
  • completely,
  • thundering,
  • duly,
  • outlook,
  • hysterical,
  • acerbic,
  • upsetting,
  • Percolating,
  • entirely,
  • driving,
  • analytic,
  • frankly,
  • transparency,
  • confidential,
  • lucid,
  • exquisite,
  • devastating,
  • flatly,
  • blatantly,
  • realistic,
  • severe,
  • tough,
  • bitter,
  • profoundly,
  • withering,
  • Argute,
  • daydream,
  • wintry,
  • seasoned,
  • let through,
  • apt,
  • pierce,
  • telling,
  • acerb,
  • unmistakeable,
  • ear-shattering,
  • forcefully,
  • bleak,
  • alive to,
  • sour,
  • cultivate,
  • greatly,
  • strong,
  • alive,
  • cold as marble,
  • pricking,
  • raw,
  • racking,
  • neat,
  • supercooled,
  • squeaking,
  • personal,
  • understanding,
  • diffusing,
  • pointed.

Paraphrases for Penetrating:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    entering, permeating.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Infiltrating.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    acute, incisive, intense, sharp, in-depth.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    attacking, breaking, bringing, coming, crossing, cutting, deepening, exceeding, executing, flying, getting, going, incoming, intruding, invading, piercing, reaching, rolling, soaking, surpassing, topping, travelling, Accomplishing, Achieving, Attaining, Breaching, Capturing, Estimating, Furthering, Gaining, Traversing, Violating, accessing, inputting, unraveling, unlocking, deepgoing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    insightful.