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单词 capacious
释义
capaciousca‧pa‧cious /kəˈpeɪʃəs/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcapacious
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin capax, from capere; CAPABLE
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a capacious theater
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • From this pseudo-grandeur, a curving stairway ascends to eight capacious galleries.
  • I give him the keyring which he glances at briefly before putting it in the capacious pocket of his rough shirt.
  • It demands long leg bones, powerful muscles, capacious lungs.
  • The coat was capacious, a home to guns, and the boots were home to knives.
  • The front door of the capacious old mansion stood open.
  • The rugged and capacious airframe offers plenty of scope for civilian operators.
  • The van was capacious and he decided to fill up the space with a couple of sacks of fuel.
  • With what amazement and pleasure we talked and laughed and wept as we flooded that capacious boulevard.
able to contain a lot:  a capacious suitcasecapaciousness noun [uncountable]
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