Capacious
[kə'peɪʃəs] or [kə'peʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
(a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.
Inputed by Harlow
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Spacious, ample, large, wide, broad, extensive, roomy, expanded, comprehensive.
Inputed by Lennon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spacious, comprehensive, voluminous, ample, accommodative, extensive, wide
ANT:Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, shallow, contracted, petty
Editor: Melinda
Examples
- His capacious waistcoat was suggestive of a large heart underneath. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Can I streak my paper with words capacious of the grand conclusion? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Into the capacious bowl-like vase I sprang with ease, and scarcely had I settled down within it than I heard a number of people enter the apartment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- His hair, which was short, sleek, and black, was just visible beneath the capacious brim of a low-crowned brown hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then we turned up a flower and shrub lined concrete driveway, and stopped by a home, capacious and modern. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The old Demarch reclined in a capacious chair beside the fountain, smoothing the golden hair of Helena, who was seated at his feet. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He is perched on a large raw-boned hunter, half-covered by a capacious saddle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- After dinner, seated in the capacious porch, he entertained me with a recital of the services he was rendering the cause. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is a capacious writing-table in the room on which is a pretty large accumulation of papers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They crawl all over him, popping in and out of his waistcoat, and sitting in couples, white as snow, on his capacious shoulders. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Editor: Melinda