pervasive
/per-VAY-siv/adjectivespreading widely throughout an area or group
“A pervasive smell of solder filled the workshop.”
- Synonyms
- ubiquitous, widespread, rife
- Antonyms
- rare, localized
- Memory hook
- per + vadere (go through): gone through everything.
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