spacious
adjective
H. L. Mencken
Synonyms
- ample
- capacious
- commodious
- roomy
Example Sentences
James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 9 Sep. 2022 The 337 guest rooms are spacious by New York hotel standards, ranging in size from 195-square-foot queen bed rooms to 10,500-square-foot one-bedroom, two-bath suites. Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 At 36 inches wide, this Prepac cabinet features four separate shelving areas, and a spacious 7 cubic feet of storage space. Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2022 The gym is spacious and equipped with the latest machines from Technogym, and there are dedicated studios for yoga and spinning. Shivani Vora, Robb Report, 18 July 2022 Located on the ground floor of the hotel, the restaurant is a spacious 5,000 square feet, with a large patio featuring a 40-foot bar complete with cabanas. Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2022 This duplex corner one-bedroom is extremely spacious (just over 1,000 square feet) and airy (there are 12 oversize windows throughout, including one each in the full and half bath, plus a skylight over the staircase). Jenny Xie, Curbed, 16 July 2021 The 12-bedroom mansion occupies a spacious 32,098 square feet and sits on more than 16 acres of land, which also includes a clock tower building with an 11-car garage. Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2021 The first floor of the home is an open, spacious room that has served previous owners as a game room, theater room, storage room and wine cellar. Brianna Griff, Chron, 7 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Middle English, from Anglo-French spacioux, from Latin spatiosus, from spatium space, room
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
spacious
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spacious
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- ample
- roomy
- large
- wide
- commodious
- capacious
- huge
- tidy
- generous
- oversize
- handsome
- sizable
- expansive
- big
- oversized
- cavernous
- gigantic
- extensive
- enormous
- vast
- voluminous
- great
- massive
- substantial
- broad
- super
- bulky
- tremendous
- mountainous
- considerable
- stupendous
- monolithic
- immense
- largish
- mammoth
- humongous
- gargantuan
- colossal
- grand
- staggering
- hulking
- goodly
- jumbo
- outsize
- sizeable
- prodigious
- titanic
- monumental
- extended
- heroic
- overscaled
- monstrous
- hefty
- leviathan
- outsized
- limitless
- king-sized
- boundless
- elephantine
- biggish
- pharaonic
- overscale
- herculean
- humungous
- unbounded
- heroical
- king-size
- Bunyanesque
- Himalayan
- Brobdingnagian
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- cramped
- small
- narrow
- limited
- confined
- restricted
- tiny
- tight
- incommodious
- snug
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of spacious are ample, capacious, and commodious. While all these words mean "larger in extent or capacity than the average," spacious implies great length and breadth.
While the synonyms ample and spacious are close in meaning, ample implies having a greater size, expanse, or amount than that deemed adequate.
The words capacious and spacious are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, capacious stresses the ability to hold, contain, or retain more than the average.
The words commodious and spacious can be used in similar contexts, but commodious stresses roominess and comfortableness.