capacious

English

Etymology

From Latin capāx (“capable”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

capacious (comparative more capacious, superlative most capacious)

1. Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

   The car was capacious enough to fit all his guests.

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     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!

Synonyms

• ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, exhaustively capable, voluminous, massive, large

Related terms

• capable
• capacity

Translations

Having a lot of space inside

Bulgarian: просторен (bg), обемист (bg) Dutch: ruim (nl) Italian: capace (it)

Russian: вместительный (ru) (vmestítel'nyj), просторный (ru) (prostórnyj), объёмистый (ru) (objómistyj)