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Webster 1913 Edition


Capacious

Ca-pa′cious

(kȧ-pā′shŭs)
,
Adj.
[L.
capax
,
-acis
, fr.
capere
to take. See
Heave
.]
1.
Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad;
as, a
capacious
vessel, room, bay, or harbor
.
In 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)

  1. 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.

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