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unspacious

unspacious adjective: not spacious.

Adjective

unspacious (comparative more unspacious, superlative most unspacious)

  1. Not spacious.
    • Rediker looks not at that bigger picture but at the slave ship itself, as a microeconomy where the captain was chief executive, jailer, accountant, paymaster and disciplinarian, exercising these roles by maintaining, from his spacious captain’s cabin in a very unspacious ship, the mystique of what...2007 October 21, Adam Hochschild, “Voyage of the Damned”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017

Forms of unspacious

comparativemore unspacious
superlativemost unspacious

Origin of unspacious

From un- + spacious.

Questions about unspacious

What does unspacious mean?
Unspacious means not spacious.
What part of speech is unspacious?
Unspacious is an adjective.

Words near unspacious in the dictionary

  1. unsowed
  2. unsown
  3. unsozzled
  4. unspaced
  5. unspaceworthy
  6. unspacious
  7. unspackled
  8. unspaded
  9. unspalled
  10. unspam
  11. unspammable

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