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Webster 1913 Edition
Capacious
1.
Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad;
as, a
. capacious
vessel, room, bay, or harborIn the
capacious
recesses of his mind. Bancroft.
2.
Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.
“A capacious mind.” Watts.
Webster 1828 Edition
Capacious
CAPACIOUS
,Adj.
1.
Wide; large; that will hold much; as a capacious vessel.2.
Broad; extensive; as a capacious bay or harbor.3.
Extensive; comprehensive; able to take a wide view; as a capacious mind.Definition 2024
capacious
capacious
English
Adjective
capacious (comparative more capacious, superlative most capacious)
- Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
- 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!
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott:
- “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.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
Synonyms
- (roomy): ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous
Related terms
Translations
Having a lot of space inside