Definition of Penetrating

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Penetrating

of Penetrate

Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor.

Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind.

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Penetrating Quotations

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Kahlil Gibran

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. Wodehouse

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Xun Zi

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
Ivan Pavlov

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
Hugh Mackay

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan

Penetrating Translations

penetrating in German is durchdringend
penetrating in Spanish is penetrante

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