Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having plenty of room; spacious: synonym: spacious.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having ample room; spacious; large.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having ample room; spacious; large

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Spacious, expansive, comfortable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an associate who shares a room with you
  • adjective (of buildings and rooms) having ample space

Etymologies

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From room.

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Examples

  • Anyway, the 117s were kind of roomy this time so I tried the 112s and they were too.

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  • On the presentation side, cancellations and no-shows have made the program very "roomy".

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  • On the presentation side, cancellations and no-shows have made the program very "roomy".

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  • Mr. Fukui, who describes the City as "roomy," said it is Honda's "most significant model" in the Indian market.

    Honda Seeks to Boost Auto Sales in India 2008

  • Coming into the neighborhood, in the absence of Elwood, the young man, finding so desirable a tract vacant, had at once taken possession; and by the return of the regulator had almost finished a neat and "roomy" cabin.

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  • But since she had to dress Lygia's hair first, she put on her meanwhile a kind of roomy dress called synthesis, and, seating her in an armchair, gave her for a time into the hands of slave women, so as to stand at a distance herself and follow the hairdressing.

    Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

  • Also the A3 seemed to offer the impression of "roomy" without really being that roomy of a car.

    Autoblog Green Sam Abuelsamid 2010

  • At the Detroit auto show, General Motors and Ford revealed their comeback strategy for small cars: Adorn them with features seldom seen in domestic econoboxes, such as roomy interiors, computer gadgets, turbocharged engines and sporty sheet metal.

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  • It was the kind of roomy, open subdivision, just over the Rockingham County line near Greensboro National Golf Club, where people move for a peaceful country setting.

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  • Also the A3 seemed to offer the impression of "roomy" without really being that roomy of a car.

    Autoblog Green Sam Abuelsamid 2010

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