capacious

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15
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19
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9
Pronunciation
/kəˈpeɪʃəs/

Definition of capacious

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. (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.”

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Etymology

From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.

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