capacious

ca·pa·cious

adj \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

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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