capacious
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- adjective
- /kəˈpeɪʃəs/
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capaz
- Her capacious backpack held all of her camping gear without feeling heavy.
- more capacious
- capacious minds
I think that's the more capacious kind of of toleration.
- I think that's the more capacious kind of of toleration.
- Over the past four years, the term left has become so capacious that it threatens to lose all meaning.
- We found ways to store that energy in increasingly capacious batteries and even in molten salt.
- So on the on the one hand, we have this immensely complex, capacious plastic wet structure in our brains.
Examples
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We found ways to store that energy in increasingly capacious batteries and even in molten salt.
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The new apartment features a capacious living room that can comfortably fit a large sofa and dining table.
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Another pint for me, and something more capacious for my friend, here.
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Shall we examine the capacious interior of this luxury automobile?
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One of the ideas was to extend the living space with capacious awnings for evening entertainment.
Academic text (1991) -
The hallway was dominated by a wide grey marble staircase which rose to a capacious second-floor balcony.
Fiction book (1990) -
Delia saw herself feeding chickens, flinging corn or wheat or whatever from her capacious country apron.
Fiction book (1995) -
The capacious storage container was able to hold winter clothes, blankets, and more.
Synonyms
Antonyms
How Roomy
Surface Forms
Morphology
capacious = capacity (transparent) = capaci + ous
The adjective corresponds to the notion of 'capacity' with the adjectival suffix '-ous', so learners who know 'capacity' can infer 'capacious' (roomy).
Etymology
The word capacious comes from Latin capax meaning 'able to hold'. Like capacity, it means having lots of room, so something capacious can hold a lot.