commodious
UK/kəˈməʊdɪ.əs//kəˈmoʊdi.əs/
commodious adjective: spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
Adjective
commodious (comparative more commodious, superlative most commodious)
- Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
- Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
- And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 27:12
- Synonyms:
- spacious, capacious, ample, commonious
- Convenient, serviceable, suitable.
- If they thinke that we ought to proue the ceremonies commodious which we haue reteined, they doe in this point very greatly deceiue themſelues.[1594], Richard Hooker, “How great vſe ceremonies haue in the Church”, in J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, book III, page 135
- There wallowing warm, th’ enormous herd exhales / An oily ſteam, and taints the noon-tide gales. / To that receſs, commodious for ſurprize, / When purple light shall ſuffuſe the skies, / […]1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, pages 178-179, lines 547-550
- Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.
- I will now ſhew vnto you, an Example of a Shield, illuſtrated with manifold variety of Celeſtiall bodies, &c. Which will be very neceſſary and commodious to be inſerted in this place.1632, John Guillim, “Sect[ion] III. Chap[ter] II.”, in A Display of Heraldrie: […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Badger for Ralph Mab, →OCLC, page 112
- When a poſition teems thus with commodious conſequences, who can without regret confeſs it to be falſe?1751 September 20 (Gregorian calendar), Samuel Johnson, “No. 155. Monday, September 10. 1751.”, in The Rambler, volume VI, Edinburgh: […] Sands, Murray, and Cochran; sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J....
- Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.
- The Paſſions that encline man to Peace, are Feare of Death; Deſire of such things as are neceſſary to commodious living; and a Hope by their Induſtry to obtain them.1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Naturall Condition of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Miſery”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill...
- My Life (ſays Horace) ſpeaking to one of theſe Magnifico's) is a great deal more eaſie and commodious than thine, in that I can go into the Market and cheapen what I pleaſe without being wonder'd at; […]1710, Abraham Cowley, “Several Diſcourſes by way of Eſſays, In Verſe and Proſe”, in The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: […] , 11th edition, volume the Second, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson; […]...
- Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.
- Patroclus will giue me any thing for the intelligence of / this whore: the Parrot will not doe more for an Almond, / then he for a commodious drab: […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- The dame's a most commodious quean, / A gypsy born, and go-hetween !1880 [1808], Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Thomas Ebenezer Webb, Faust, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., London: Longmans, Green, & Co., →OCLC, [Act III, scene xi], page 190
commodious meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
commodious in Bengali
- প্রশস্ত, আরামদায়ক, যেখানে অনেক জায়গা আছে
commodious in Telugu
- commodious
- ప్రశస్తము praśastamu
commodious in Malayalam
- വിശാലമായ, സൗകര്യപ്രദമായ, അനുയോജ്യമായ, സ്ഥലസൗകര്യമുള്ള, വിസ്താരമുള്ള
commodious in Kannada
- ಎಡೆಯಿರುವ
Examples of commodious in a sentence
- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.1854, Charles Dickens, “The One Thing Needful”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Sowing)...
- Meanwhile the T'ai-Yuan-Fu Boys' Boarding School had been transferred to new, more commodious and well-equipped buildings on the Hsing-Hua-Ling site.1957, Henry Raymond Williamson, British Baptists in China, 1845-1952, →OCLC, page 106:
- A little after Zeluco came of age, the aunt fixed her eyes on him as a commodious match for her niece.1789, John Moore, chapter III, in Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domeſtic, volume I...
Synonyms of commodious
Antonyms
Forms of commodious
| comparative | more commodious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most commodious |
Origin of commodious
From Middle English commodious (“convenient, advantageous”), from Anglo-Norman commodious, Old French commodieux, directly from Medieval Latin commodiosus (“convenient, useful”), irregularly from Latin commodus (“suitable, fit, convenient”), from com- + modus (“measure, manner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). Analyzable as commode (“to provide with an appropriate or necessary thing; to suit”) + -ious.
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Words that rhyme with commodious
Questions about commodious
- What does commodious mean?
- Commodious means spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
- What is commodious in Bengali?
- Commodious in Bengali is প্রশস্ত, আরামদায়ক, যেখানে অনেক জায়গা আছে. See Commodious meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use commodious in a sentence?
- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
- What part of speech is commodious?
- Commodious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce commodious?
- Commodious is pronounced /kəˈməʊdɪ.əs/ (UK).
Words near commodious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: commodious (page history and authors); Commodious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్రశస్తము (Telugu) (page history and authors); commodious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commodious (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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