capacious

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capacious

  • /kəˈpeɪʃəs/

Rhymes with -eɪʃəs

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

adjective more capacious · most capacious

  1. Having a lot of space inside; roomy. I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n
  2. figuratively Capable, able. [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.

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