capacious
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/kəˈpeɪʃəs/
Definition of capacious
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
“I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n”
“‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.”
“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!”
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”
““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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adj
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Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
“I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n”
“‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.”
“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!”
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”
““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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(figuratively)Capable, able.
“[T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.”
“As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.
Words you can make from capacious
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18 words4-letter words
31 words- CACA 8 pts
- CAPO 8 pts
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- COPI 8 pts
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- COUP 8 pts
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- PICA 8 pts
- PICS 8 pts
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- ACAI 6 pts
- APOS 6 pts
- ASCI 6 pts
- CASA 6 pts
- CIAO 6 pts
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- OPAS 6 pts
- OPUS 6 pts
- PAUA 6 pts
- PIAS 6 pts
- PISO 6 pts
- POIS 6 pts
- SOAP 6 pts
- SOCA 6 pts
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3-letter words
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- AAS 3 pts
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2-letter words
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