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
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Adjective
capacious (comparative more capacious, superlative most capacious)
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (roomy): ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous
Related terms
- capable
- capacity
Translations
having a lot of space inside
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