capacious

English

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Etymology

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From Latin capāx (“capable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpeɪʃəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

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Adjective

capacious (comparative more capacious, superlative most capacious)

1. Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter V, in For the Term of His Natural Life:

     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!

   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott‎^[1]:

     “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.

Synonyms

• (roomy): ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous

Related terms

• capable
• capacity

Translations

having a lot of space inside

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: просторен (bg) (prostoren), обемист (bg) (obemist)
• Chinese:

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• Danish: rummelig
• Dutch: ruim (nl)
• Finnish: tilava (fi)
• French: spacieux (fr)
• German: geräumig (de)
• Greek: ευρύχωρος (el) (evrýchoros)
• Irish: dea-láin
• Italian: capace (it)
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• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Latin: capax
• Maori: ngakengake
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rommelig

• Portuguese: espaçoso (pt)
• Russian: вмести́тельный (ru) (vmestítelʹnyj), просто́рный (ru) (prostórnyj), объёмистый (ru) (obʺjómistyj)
• Spanish: espacioso (es) m
• Swedish: rymlig (sv), spatiös (sv)
• Ukrainian: просто́рий (prostóryj), містки́й (mistkýj)