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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.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “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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synonyms (12)

Words with the same meaning

  1. large
  2. roomy
  1. spacious
  2. extended
  1. broad
  2. comprehensive
  1. liberal
  2. room
  1. voluminous
  2. ample
  1. commodious
  2. exhaustively capable

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘capacious’

  1. big
  1. large

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. spacious
  2. cavernous
  3. ample
  1. well-filled
  2. snug
  3. oversized
  1. empty
  2. leathern
  3. shallow
  1. convenient
  2. dilapidated
  3. outer
  1. voluminous
  2. expansive
  3. neat
  1. luxurious

rhymes (23)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Ignatius
  2. audacious
  3. ceraceous
  4. crustaceous
  1. efficacious
  2. fallacious
  3. flirtatious
  4. gracious
  1. hellacious
  2. herbaceous
  3. loquacious
  4. mendacious
  1. ostentatious
  2. perspicacious
  3. predaceous
  4. proteinaceous
  1. salacious
  2. sebaceous
  3. spacious
  4. tenacious
  1. vexatious
  2. vivacious
  3. voracious

reverse dictionary (27)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. capacious
  2. acious
  3. incapacious
  4. holdall
  5. large
  1. capaciously
  2. capaciousness
  3. tig
  4. womby
  5. ochopetalous
  1. superliner
  2. capable
  3. tote
  4. tote bag
  5. carryall
  1. powerful
  2. receiver
  3. spacious
  4. watering pot
  5. ample
  1. bellarmine
  2. black-jack
  3. captious
  4. comprehensive
  5. full
  1. throaty
  2. wide

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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

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