roomy
- adjective
- /ˈrumi/
- The spacious living room was perfect for entertaining guests; it felt very roomy with all the furniture arranged.
- a roomy interior
- a roomy seat
- a roomy car
It's nice and roomy, but also not too big.
- It's nice and roomy, but also not too big.
- This is not a very roomy rear seat, but it is a rear seat nonetheless.
- So guess what, I love sitting on my couch, in my roomy pants and my thick socks, scouring the Internet for treasures.
- I couldn't make the movie unless that house was the exact right kind of roomy log cabin had to be on a lake and it had to be in a place that felt like Maine.
- Sorry, the lighting's probably terrible, but this is, like, the most roomy airplane team I've ever had.
- Again, we're talking about a very, very stretchy for giving roomy sort of material.
- She says it's roomy on the phone, and I say, tell her that I'm dead.
- There's some roomy kicks or some tight kicks that's a very roomy.
- One was more roomy and I agreed to that against my better judgement, because I didn't want to have a drum sound like that on the record.
Examples
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My next stable was quite roomy; a swinging window opened into the yard opposite an apple orchard.
Fiction book (1996) -
Because the box is roomy, I also carry other items that I think would be useful.
Academic text (1997) -
It's nice and roomy, but also not too big.
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You know this house is roomy and cool.
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But the roomy kitchen could feed one hundred people in a day.
Fiction book (2002) -
When l bought this car, l fell in love with the roomy trunk space.
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"The house seemed roomier inside than I would have expected.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's ultra high tech and it's tremendously luxurious and comfortable and roomy inside.
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The weather wasn't cool enough for jackets yet, but I'd needed something with roomy pockets.
Fiction book (1998) -
The airlock was roomier than most, big enough to take two spacesuited people at a time.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
A large open room or area with plenty of space
A place with a lot of fresh air and space
Used in the past to mean large and comfortable
With a lot of space inside and able to hold many things
Clothes and rooms that are not heavy or tight and feel fresh and open
Having a lot of space and being comfortable
Open with a lot of space to move, like a park or field
Antonyms
How Spacious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word roomy comes from the simple word room, which means 'space' or 'place', plus the ending -y that means 'full of'. That's why roomy literally means 'full of space' and is used for places that have plenty of room.