capacious

Definition

Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

Etymology

From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.

Example Sentences

• "I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n"
• "‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl."
• "The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!"

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