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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for pervasive:

1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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]

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