capacious
adjective
Synonyms
- ample
- commodious
- roomy
- spacious
Example Sentences
WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022 For six years, Garrett used a chainsaw, Roundup, and his capacious plant knowledge to rid the West’s greatest national parks of salt cedar and other invasives. Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 13 July 2022 Graduation ceremonies for Berea-Midpark seniors had a different look and setting this year, when the 450 members of the Class of 2022 walked across the capacious front lawn at the new school, to receive their diplomas. Rich Heileman, cleveland, 1 July 2022 The luggage capacity on the FWD cars is capacious, too. James Morris, Forbes, 2 July 2022 There are now three exhibition galleries rather than two, a works on paper archive, a classroom, expanded collection storage and a capacious entry hall. Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022 Vacheron Constantin, meanwhile, opened its biggest store in the world in NYC last June, using the capacious locale to showcase ultra-rare timepieces to shoppers. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2022 The handmade-to-order, the capacious messenger style makes a great city bag. Vogue, 3 June 2022 Many of the capacious residential-style accommodations have private decks overlooking the terrain; from $325, carmelvalleyranch.com. Elycia Rubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2022 See More Word History
Latin capac-, capax capacious, capable, from Latin capere — see capable
1606, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
capacious
adjective
capacious
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- spacious
- ample
- large
- commodious
- wide
- roomy
- huge
- generous
- oversize
- sizable
- expansive
- cavernous
- big
- tidy
- voluminous
- handsome
- oversized
- gigantic
- enormous
- vast
- extensive
- broad
- massive
- substantial
- considerable
- bulky
- gargantuan
- immense
- elephantine
- prodigious
- colossal
- outsize
- humongous
- mammoth
- tremendous
- stupendous
- largish
- mountainous
- monolithic
- goodly
- super
- hefty
- hulking
- boundless
- sizeable
- great
- monstrous
- outsized
- jumbo
- titanic
- herculean
- leviathan
- staggering
- humungous
- limitless
- grand
- extended
- monumental
- biggish
- unbounded
- overscaled
- heroic
- king-sized
- heroical
- pharaonic
- overscale
- king-size
- Brobdingnagian
- Bunyanesque
- Himalayan
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- narrow
- confined
- limited
- incommodious
- small
- restricted
- cramped
- tiny
- tight
- snug
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of capacious are ample, commodious, and spacious. While all these words mean "larger in extent or capacity than the average," capacious stresses the ability to hold, contain, or retain more than the average.
In some situations, the words ample and capacious are roughly equivalent. However, ample implies having a greater size, expanse, or amount than that deemed adequate.
The meanings of commodious and capacious largely overlap; however, commodious stresses roominess and comfortableness.
The synonyms spacious and capacious are sometimes interchangeable, but spacious implies great length and breadth.