commodious

com·mo·di·ous

adj \kə-ˈmō-dē-əs\

Definition of COMMODIOUS

1

: comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy <a commodious closet>

2

archaic : handy, serviceable

— com·mo·di·ous·ly adverb

— com·mo·di·ous·ness noun

Examples of COMMODIOUS

1. <a house with exceptionally commodious closets>

Origin of COMMODIOUS

Middle English, fertile, useful, modification of Medieval Latin commodosus, from Latin commodum convenience, from neuter of commodus

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to COMMODIOUS

Synonyms: ample, capacious, spacious, 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

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Rhymes with COMMODIOUS

melodious