penetrative

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11

Definition of penetrative

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating.
    “Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame […]”
    “[T]he penetrative Sun, / His Force deep-darting to the dark Retreat / Of Vegetation, sets the steaming Power / At large […].”
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adj

  1. That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating.
    “Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame […]”
    “[T]he penetrative Sun, / His Force deep-darting to the dark Retreat / Of Vegetation, sets the steaming Power / At large […].”
  2. Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating.
  3. That can penetrate opposition defences.
  4. Pertaining to sexual activity involving penetration by the penis (or similar object).
    “I've been in a relationship for nearly a year and we have an amazing sex life as is, but we've never managed penetrative sex.”

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Etymology

From Middle English penetratyve, penetratif, from Medieval Latin penetrativus, from (the participle stem of) Latin penetrāre (“to penetrate”).

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