Spacious
['speɪʃəs] or ['speʃəs]
Definition
(n.) Extending far and wide; vast in extent.
(n.) Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Wide, extended, extensive, expansive, broad, ample, capacious, roomy.
Typist: Trevor
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ample, extensive, broad, vast, capacious, large, wide, roomy, expansive
ANT:Narrow, restricted, limited, cramped, confined, inextensive
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Examples
- It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- All under one roof, and all clean, spacious, comfortable grottoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Silence, melancholy bride of death, went in procession with him from town to town through the spacious region. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Leaving the main building with its corps of busy experimenters, and coming out into the spacious yard, one notes the four long single-story brick structures mentioned above. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The main laboratory was a spacious wooden building of two floors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some lead to spacious results; others are blind alleys. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Eva's bed-room was a spacious apartment, which, like all the other rooms in the house, opened on to the broad verandah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Little Dorrit looked into a dim room, which seemed a spacious one to her, and grandly furnished. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The centre of this spacious room is an open rectangular space about forty by twenty-five feet, rising clear about forty feet from the main floor to a panelled ceiling. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In my world it is sunny and spacious--' 'It is, my love, isn't it? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was spacious, and nearly circular, with a raised seat of stone, about the size of a Grecian couch, at one end. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At length we were halted in a spacious chamber in the centre of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Engineers are at work, now, turning the open roadstead into a spacious artificial harbor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They are then sent to the shipping department to be shipped immediately or stored in one of the spacious storehouses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They had coffee and rolls and honey in the vast desert refreshment room, so dreary, always so dreary, dirty, so spacious, such desolation of space. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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