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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy. See Synonyms at spacious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Capable of receiving or holding: as, a jar capacious of 20 gallons.
  2. Capable of holding much; roomy; spacious: as, a capacious vessel; a capacious bay or harbor; a capacious mind or memory.
  3. Disposed to receive or take comprehensive views (of).

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad.
  2. adj. Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. large in capacity

Etymologies

  1. From Latin capāx ("capable"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin capāx, capāc-, from capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Bellow's letters take the reader through a long and replete – "capacious" is his wife's word for it – life.”

    The Guardian: Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved'

  • “a place was the Grotto, where Brissenden and he lounged in capacious leather chairs and drank Scotch and soda.”

    Chapter 31

  • “While I wouldn't necessarily argue that Uris or Wouk have the same richness of language or psychological depth as, say, John Updike or Ian McEwan, they do offer a kind of capacious private world for the reader to move around in, a lush mental landscape that can only be found in books.”

    Peter Blauner: Where Have All The Middlebrows Gone?

  • “Calling it "capacious" and "quite spectacular," she praised the club's managers for their enforcement of drinking laws.”

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  • “Ark "-- by which complimentary title the capacious boat devoted to the use of the juniors of the house was known -- lazily up on the tide towards”

    The Willoughby Captains

  • “The narrator is himself an unengaging figure whose status as a blank slate on which his friend Perkus inscribes a more capacious understanding does not make him a character with whom one wants to spend over 450 pages.”

    Detecting a Wrongness

  • “Carrying lip gloss, keys, sunglasses, shopping lists and candy bars, all the trivia of the handbag, in its capacious elegance.”

    Evolution - Dedicated to the Honorable Cynthia McKinney

  • “He recently moved this prerevolutionary staple of Cairo intellectual life to the more capacious Opera House.”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Face of Egypt's Uprising

  • “Eric Wesley's "Improbability of Intentionally Creating Shock, Part II" (2011) is a big, double "exaggerated rubber band" (as the gallery describes it), attached on one end to the far wall of the capacious front gallery and on the other to a chrome-and-steel square "wheel.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Shock, Light Therapy With Life Thrown In

  • “Bottega Veneta's Scarabee convertible bag in light iridescent leather £ 2,450: Amazingly light, stylish and capacious, you could pack a baby elephant in here — well, OK, maybe a couple of kittens and a hair dryer.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Luggage: An Open and Shut Case

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  • bilby "A flight of smooth double chins led down to the dizzy depths of a still-snowy bosom veiled in snowy muslins that were held in place by a miniature portrait of the late Mr. Mingott; and around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious armchair, with two tiny white hands poised like gulls on the surface of the billows."
    - Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'. Sep 19, 2009

  • yarb Citation on raree-show. Sep 11, 2008

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