capacious

[ kuh-pey-shuhs ]

/ kəˈpeɪ ʃəs /

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adjective

capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.

SYNONYMS FOR capacious

ample, large.

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ANTONYMS FOR capacious

confining.

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Origin of capacious

First recorded in 1605–15; capaci(ty) + -ous

OTHER WORDS FROM capacious

ca·pa·cious·ly, adverbca·pa·cious·ness, nounun·ca·pa·cious, adjectiveun·ca·pa·cious·ly, adverb

un·ca·pa·cious·ness, noun

Words nearby capacious

cap, capa, capability, Capablanca, capable, capacious, capacitance, capacitate, capacitation, capacitive, capacitive coupling

How to use capacious in a sentence

I likely became a novelist, in part, because novels are deep, capacious.
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As we were getting ready to repair to his capacious table, we were joined by Claude Lanzmann, the maker of the film Shoah.
My Moments With Ariel Sharon|Seth Lipsky|January 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The final artifact is a live elephant whose capacious appetite is slowly eating into the estate.
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He was simply an artist whose insatiable ambition manifested in “a frighteningly capacious stomach.”
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Yet I doubt that she will become a capacious judge with wide-ranging interests and intense curiosity.
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But George H.W. Bush is a man of capacious and unconditional love, so I imagine that carried him through the day.
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The port is not only capacious, but has very few shoals or dangers in it.
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They are higher, more capacious, and finer buildings than those of Benares, with the exception of the Bisvishas.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
The building is cruciform in shape, and has a fine interior—is lofty, capacious, and cathedral-like.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus
He went to a cupboard, and produced a stumpy, but capacious bottle, and three glasses.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks|Bracebridge Hemyng
Loftily poised in ether capacious, Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
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British Dictionary definitions for capacious

capacious

/ (kəˈpeɪʃəs) /

adjective

capable of holding much; roomy; spacious

Derived forms of capacious

capaciously, adverbcapaciousness, noun

Word Origin for capacious

C17: from Latin capāx, from Latin capere to take

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capacious

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adjective

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