capacious
/kəˈpeɪʃəs/
capacious adjective: having a lot of space inside; roomy.
Adjective
capacious (comparative more capacious, superlative most capacious)
- Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
- I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC
- ‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Comprising a brief Description of the Company at the Peacock assembled; and a Tale told by a Bagman”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...
- Synonyms:
- ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous
- Capable, able.
- [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 185
- As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power.2025 April 28, Jeffrey Goldberg, “Signalgate, Trump, and The Atlantic”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN
capacious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
capacious in Tamil
- அகன்ற, பரந்த, விசாலமான
capacious in Urdu
- capacious, wide, roomy
- واسع vāse
capacious in Bengali
- প্রশস্ত, বিশাল
capacious in Malayalam
- spacious, roomy, ample
- ഇടം ധാരാളമുള്ള, വിശാലമായ, വിപുലമായ, വിസ്തൃതമായ, വിഷ്കംഭി, വിസ്താരമുള്ള
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- capacious in Kannada
- ತೆರವುಳ್ಳ, ಹರಹುಳ್ಳ
- capacious in Arabic
- مُتَّسِع muttasiʕ
Examples of capacious in a sentence
- There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London...
- “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.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC...
- Profitable operation is being made possible by the widespread introduction of capacious diesel railcars, which for their comfort and speed are very popular with the travelling public.1953 April, “Reviving U.S.A. Passenger Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 218:
- The only outfit I could conjure up was a capacious linen shift and a saggy cotton-wool cardigan.2025 July 7, Annie Lowrey, “I Fought Plastic. Plastic Won.”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
Synonyms of capacious
Forms of capacious
| comparative | more capacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most capacious |
Origin of capacious
From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.
Words formed from capacious
Words that rhyme with capacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about capacious
- What does capacious mean?
- Capacious means having a lot of space inside; roomy.
- What is capacious in Tamil?
- Capacious in Tamil is அகன்ற, பரந்த, விசாலமான. See Capacious meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use capacious in a sentence?
- There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
- What part of speech is capacious?
- Capacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce capacious?
- Capacious is pronounced /kəˈpeɪʃəs/.
Words near capacious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: capacious (page history and authors); capacious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); واسع (Urdu) (page history and authors); Capacious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); capacious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); capacious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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