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单词 capacious
释义

capacious

English

WOTD – 29 November 2013, 30 April 2014, 29 November 2014

Etymology

From Latin capāx (capable) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈpeɪʃəs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃəs
  • (file)

Adjective

capacious (comparative more capacious, superlative most capacious)

  1. Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter V, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
      The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott:
      “Do I fidget you?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.

Synonyms

  • (roomy): ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous
  • capable
  • capacity

Translations

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