capacious

ca·pa·cious

adjective \kə-ˈpā-shəs\

Definition of CAPACIOUS

: containing or capable of containing a great deal

— ca·pa·cious·ly adverb

— ca·pa·cious·ness noun

Examples of CAPACIOUS

1. <that car has a capacious trunk that makes it a good choice for families>

Origin of CAPACIOUS

Latin capac-, capax capacious, capable, from Latin capere

First Known Use: 1606

Related to CAPACIOUS

Synonyms

ample, spacious, commodious, roomy

Related Words

cavernous, voluminous; broad, wide; big, biggish, bulky, considerable, generous, goodly, grand, great, handsome, hefty, hulking, large, largish, outsize (also outsized), overscale (or overscaled), oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy; Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pharaonic, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, super, titanic, tremendous; expansive, extended, extensive, vast; boundless, limitless, unbounded

Near Antonyms

confined, cramped, incommodious, limited, narrow, restricted; small, snug, tight, tiny

See Synonym Discussion at spacious

Rhymes with CAPACIOUS

audacious, bodacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious