pervasive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pervasive
    adj 1: spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative
           irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor
           of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to
           more than one conclusion" [syn: {permeant}, {permeating},
           {permeative}, {pervasive}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pervasive \Per*va"sive\ (p[~e]r*v[=a]"s[i^]v), a.
   Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of
   a pervading quality. "Civilization pervasive and general."
   --M. Arnold.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pervasive":
      absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
      born, broad-based, clean, clear, comprehensive, congenital,
      consummate, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious,
      exhaustive, general, inescapable, intensive, omnibus, omnipresent,
      out-and-out, outright, penetrating, perfect, permeating,
      permeative, pervading, plain, plumb, prevalent, pure, radical,
      regular, sheer, straight, suffusing, suffusive, sweeping, thorough,
      thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous,
      unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved,
      unrestricted, utter, veritable, wholesale, widespread

    

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