| 单词 | capacious |
| 释义 | capacious (once / 2639 pages) adj When something is really big and holds a lot it is capacious, like a woman's capacious purse that is so big, people mistake it for a piece of luggage. Have you ever seen a Fourth of July hot dog eating contest? As you watch people wolf down 60 or more hot dogs in a matter of minutes, you must be thinking, "Where do they put all that food?" Well, it helps to have a capacious stomach. The suffix -ous adds "full of" to capacity; capacious is literally "full of capacity." If something is capacious, it has plenty of extra room. WORD FAMILYcapacious: capaciously, capaciousness+/capacitate: capacitated, capacitates, capacitating, incapacitate/capacity: capacious, capacitate, capacities, incapacity/incapacitate: incapacitated, incapacitates, incapacitating/incapacity: incapacities USAGE EXAMPLESShakespeare’s work is more capacious than Lloyd’s interpretive scheme. Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) That ability is more capacious than he suggests. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) The sea of Cubans who came to say goodbye was massive, spilling out of the capacious plaza into the surrounding boulevards. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) adj large in capacity she carried a capacious bag Syn big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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