| 单词 | commodious |
| 释义 | commodious (once / 2473 pages) adj If your house has a big and comfortable living room, you could say that you have a commodious space for entertaining. Commodious means roomy. Yes, you see the word, commode — i.e. toilet — in commodious. Both words once had the meaning of convenience attached to them from their Latin roots. Indoor plumbing is in fact convenient when you compare it with the alternative as is having room to spare. But that meaning was left behind years ago. WORD FAMILYcommodious: commodiously, commodiousness, incommodious+/incommodious: incommodiously, incommodiousness USAGE EXAMPLESHis hands were tucked away in the commodious sleeves of his stereotypically Chinese gold-brocaded robe. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) Though living in a commodious — and, of course, isolated — New England home, Mary cares for Stephen without so much as a cleaning lady to help. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) “A commodious porch ran across its front, with double-deck balconies above.” New York Times(Oct 09, 2016) adj large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) a commodious harbor a commodious building suitable for conventions Syn|Ant convenient roomy, spacious (of buildings and rooms) having ample space incommodious uncomfortably or inconveniently small crampedconstricted in size |
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