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Synonyms for penetrating:


adj. stinging, harsh

biting
piercing
trenchant
carrying
clear-cut
crisp
cutting
edged
entering
forcing
infiltrating
permeating
pointed
puncturing
shrill
ingoing
intrusive
penetrant
pervasive
pungent
sharp
strong

adj. intelligent

astute
incisive
perceptive
profound
shrewd
discerning
discriminating
keen
searching
acute
critical
penetrative
perspicacious
quick
quick-witted
sagacious
sharp
sharp-witted

Examples of uses:

it is very penetrating, it possesses the aggravated sensitivity.
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The intensity of light penetrating darkness seems to weaken.
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And then he'd ask all these penetrating questions about it...
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Every second they are penetrating my body and yours.
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That's a penetrating diagnosis from the White House communications director.
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Captain, we're being hit by a field of energetic tachyons penetrating the hull.
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Deputy commander, how do you explain the burglars'success in penetrating police HQ?
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
They're penetrating our shields because they're in a state of temporal flux.
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This second hole is penetrating the hole of your face.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Finally Wilhelm proposed that somebody should be responsible for winding up the clock with its small but penetrating chimes.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

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