penetrat ingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

penetrating (comparative more penetrating, superlative most penetrating)

1. Able to pierce or penetrate

   The skunk produces a penetrating odor.

   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:

     As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.

2. Looking deeply into; piercing

   He had a very penetrating pair of brown eyes.

3. Demonstrating acute or keen understanding

   His novel shows a penetrating insight into the criminal mind.

派生語

動詞

penetrating

1. present participle and gerund of penetrate

アナグラム

• repatenting