Definition of capacious in English:

capacious

adjective kəˈpeɪʃəskəˈpeɪʃəs

Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
she rummaged in her capacious handbag
Example sentencesExamples
- It is this kind of surprising observation, this capacity for affection that makes her so novels so capacious: a divorce may be announced, but so is the hissing of a gas fire.
- They don't address the same market, and you simply can't fit numerous albums onto even the most capacious memory card currently on the market.
- The overall impression is of a man with a warm and capacious heart and an affection for others that sustained his creative enterprises to the end.
- There was the case of Dr James Mackay, widely touted in the early 1990s as the leading authority on Burns and author of a capacious biography.
- If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader.
- Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind.
- I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
- The human face and the human body are simply not that capacious: the bad things we do are infinitely worse than the bad ways we look.
- Within minutes the capacious bins around the Zone are brimming with cardboard boxes, soft drink bottles and disposable cutlery.
- My Microsoft Outlook engine is not so capacious; messages disappear after 28 days.
- Munro's stories have always felt exceptionally capacious; they have the scope of novels, though without any awkward sense of speeding up or boiling down.
- It's easier to do this in the cold weather, when I'm wearing a jacket with capacious pockets.
- At a functional level the building is well-situated, it is capacious, and has served generations of local people well.
- The novel is a simple, capacious, natural, and accessible form.
- The range of Eco's interests and talents is such as to make him exemplary as a classic intellectual, for whom wide reading and capacious reflection are the distinguishing duties.
- A popular, capacious theatre in the city tempted many a moviegoer on a hot, sunny afternoon.
- This means that for a guinea you could feed two dozen trenchermen on BSE-free beef, and still have enough left over to fill a couple of capacious doggy-bags.
- Attorneys and judges in this bland, wood-paneled space all wear capacious robes patterned on the gowns of medieval European clerics.
- Each time I see Hugh, I remind him that we are a figment of his capacious imagination.
- Over white wine and crackers - produced by Phyllis from her capacious handbag - we debate the grim nature of some women's lives in America today.
Synonyms
roomy, commodious, spacious, ample, big, large, sizeable, generous, extensive, substantial, vast, huge, immense
voluminous
rare spacey

Derivatives

capaciously

adverb

André Campra was a relatively small fish in these capaciously glittering waters: a man born in 1660 and nurtured provincially in ecclesiastical circles in Aix-en-Provence.
Example sentencesExamples
- Like his namesake, Lal Krishna, the bookstore's owner is an émigré from Karachi: but whereas that other Advani is humourless and hardnosed and fundamentalist, this Advani is kindly and wise and capaciously catholic.
- Now he took sanyas from politics, settled down in a small house, read capaciously, and wrote his versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
- Whether soldiers or civilians, Capa's subjects were always recognizably, indeed capaciously, human, and their corpses remained, for the most part, buried in private.
- If Volkslied was capaciously inclusive in Herder's coinage, so too are worldbeat, global pop, and, yes, world music for the recording industry.

capaciousness

noun kəˈpeɪʃəsnəskəˈpeɪʃəsnəs

Edson jovially stresses the capaciousness of the genre.
Example sentencesExamples
- A crucial element of Fiedler's brilliance as a critic was the generous capaciousness of his responses.
- To that end, we tested a host of models and picked the exemplars of four signal sea-kayaking virtues: capaciousness, zip, ease of use, and portability.
- Imitating it too faithfully would have killed the film's fragile momentum, but Minghella, working with the matchlessly resourceful editor Walter Murch, has tightened Frazier's ungainly tale while preserving its epic capaciousness.
- Critics argued that the narrowness of Rawls's philosophical lexicon undercut the capaciousness of his moral aims, thus failing to take diversity, especially religious pluralism, seriously enough.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin capax, capac- 'capable' + -ious.

Rhymes

Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious

Definition of capacious in US English:

capacious

adjectivekəˈpāSHəskəˈpeɪʃəs

Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
she rummaged in her capacious handbag
Example sentencesExamples
- A popular, capacious theatre in the city tempted many a moviegoer on a hot, sunny afternoon.
- If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader.
- There was the case of Dr James Mackay, widely touted in the early 1990s as the leading authority on Burns and author of a capacious biography.
- Over white wine and crackers - produced by Phyllis from her capacious handbag - we debate the grim nature of some women's lives in America today.
- They don't address the same market, and you simply can't fit numerous albums onto even the most capacious memory card currently on the market.
- It is this kind of surprising observation, this capacity for affection that makes her so novels so capacious: a divorce may be announced, but so is the hissing of a gas fire.
- My Microsoft Outlook engine is not so capacious; messages disappear after 28 days.
- Attorneys and judges in this bland, wood-paneled space all wear capacious robes patterned on the gowns of medieval European clerics.
- Within minutes the capacious bins around the Zone are brimming with cardboard boxes, soft drink bottles and disposable cutlery.
- It's easier to do this in the cold weather, when I'm wearing a jacket with capacious pockets.
- I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
- Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind.
- The overall impression is of a man with a warm and capacious heart and an affection for others that sustained his creative enterprises to the end.
- The novel is a simple, capacious, natural, and accessible form.
- Each time I see Hugh, I remind him that we are a figment of his capacious imagination.
- This means that for a guinea you could feed two dozen trenchermen on BSE-free beef, and still have enough left over to fill a couple of capacious doggy-bags.
- The human face and the human body are simply not that capacious: the bad things we do are infinitely worse than the bad ways we look.
- At a functional level the building is well-situated, it is capacious, and has served generations of local people well.
- Munro's stories have always felt exceptionally capacious; they have the scope of novels, though without any awkward sense of speeding up or boiling down.
- The range of Eco's interests and talents is such as to make him exemplary as a classic intellectual, for whom wide reading and capacious reflection are the distinguishing duties.
Synonyms
roomy, commodious, spacious, ample, big, large, sizeable, generous, extensive, substantial, vast, huge, immense

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin capax, capac- ‘capable’ + -ious.

单词	capacious
释义	Definition of capacious in English: capacious adjective kəˈpeɪʃəskəˈpeɪʃəs Having a lot of space inside; roomy. she rummaged in her capacious handbag Example sentencesExamples It is this kind of surprising observation, this capacity for affection that makes her so novels so capacious: a divorce may be announced, but so is the hissing of a gas fire. They don't address the same market, and you simply can't fit numerous albums onto even the most capacious memory card currently on the market. The overall impression is of a man with a warm and capacious heart and an affection for others that sustained his creative enterprises to the end. There was the case of Dr James Mackay, widely touted in the early 1990s as the leading authority on Burns and author of a capacious biography. If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader. Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind. I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious. The human face and the human body are simply not that capacious: the bad things we do are infinitely worse than the bad ways we look. Within minutes the capacious bins around the Zone are brimming with cardboard boxes, soft drink bottles and disposable cutlery. My Microsoft Outlook engine is not so capacious; messages disappear after 28 days. Munro's stories have always felt exceptionally capacious; they have the scope of novels, though without any awkward sense of speeding up or boiling down. It's easier to do this in the cold weather, when I'm wearing a jacket with capacious pockets. At a functional level the building is well-situated, it is capacious, and has served generations of local people well. The novel is a simple, capacious, natural, and accessible form. The range of Eco's interests and talents is such as to make him exemplary as a classic intellectual, for whom wide reading and capacious reflection are the distinguishing duties. A popular, capacious theatre in the city tempted many a moviegoer on a hot, sunny afternoon. This means that for a guinea you could feed two dozen trenchermen on BSE-free beef, and still have enough left over to fill a couple of capacious doggy-bags. Attorneys and judges in this bland, wood-paneled space all wear capacious robes patterned on the gowns of medieval European clerics. Each time I see Hugh, I remind him that we are a figment of his capacious imagination. Over white wine and crackers - produced by Phyllis from her capacious handbag - we debate the grim nature of some women's lives in America today. Synonyms roomy, commodious, spacious, ample, big, large, sizeable, generous, extensive, substantial, vast, huge, immense voluminous rare spacey Derivatives capaciously adverb André Campra was a relatively small fish in these capaciously glittering waters: a man born in 1660 and nurtured provincially in ecclesiastical circles in Aix-en-Provence. Example sentencesExamples Like his namesake, Lal Krishna, the bookstore's owner is an émigré from Karachi: but whereas that other Advani is humourless and hardnosed and fundamentalist, this Advani is kindly and wise and capaciously catholic. Now he took sanyas from politics, settled down in a small house, read capaciously, and wrote his versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Whether soldiers or civilians, Capa's subjects were always recognizably, indeed capaciously, human, and their corpses remained, for the most part, buried in private. If Volkslied was capaciously inclusive in Herder's coinage, so too are worldbeat, global pop, and, yes, world music for the recording industry. capaciousness noun kəˈpeɪʃəsnəskəˈpeɪʃəsnəs Edson jovially stresses the capaciousness of the genre. Example sentencesExamples A crucial element of Fiedler's brilliance as a critic was the generous capaciousness of his responses. To that end, we tested a host of models and picked the exemplars of four signal sea-kayaking virtues: capaciousness, zip, ease of use, and portability. Imitating it too faithfully would have killed the film's fragile momentum, but Minghella, working with the matchlessly resourceful editor Walter Murch, has tightened Frazier's ungainly tale while preserving its epic capaciousness. Critics argued that the narrowness of Rawls's philosophical lexicon undercut the capaciousness of his moral aims, thus failing to take diversity, especially religious pluralism, seriously enough. Origin Early 17th century: from Latin capax, capac- 'capable' + -ious. Rhymes Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of capacious in US English: capacious adjectivekəˈpāSHəskəˈpeɪʃəs Having a lot of space inside; roomy. she rummaged in her capacious handbag Example sentencesExamples A popular, capacious theatre in the city tempted many a moviegoer on a hot, sunny afternoon. If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader. There was the case of Dr James Mackay, widely touted in the early 1990s as the leading authority on Burns and author of a capacious biography. Over white wine and crackers - produced by Phyllis from her capacious handbag - we debate the grim nature of some women's lives in America today. They don't address the same market, and you simply can't fit numerous albums onto even the most capacious memory card currently on the market. It is this kind of surprising observation, this capacity for affection that makes her so novels so capacious: a divorce may be announced, but so is the hissing of a gas fire. My Microsoft Outlook engine is not so capacious; messages disappear after 28 days. Attorneys and judges in this bland, wood-paneled space all wear capacious robes patterned on the gowns of medieval European clerics. Within minutes the capacious bins around the Zone are brimming with cardboard boxes, soft drink bottles and disposable cutlery. It's easier to do this in the cold weather, when I'm wearing a jacket with capacious pockets. I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious. Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind. The overall impression is of a man with a warm and capacious heart and an affection for others that sustained his creative enterprises to the end. The novel is a simple, capacious, natural, and accessible form. Each time I see Hugh, I remind him that we are a figment of his capacious imagination. This means that for a guinea you could feed two dozen trenchermen on BSE-free beef, and still have enough left over to fill a couple of capacious doggy-bags. The human face and the human body are simply not that capacious: the bad things we do are infinitely worse than the bad ways we look. At a functional level the building is well-situated, it is capacious, and has served generations of local people well. Munro's stories have always felt exceptionally capacious; they have the scope of novels, though without any awkward sense of speeding up or boiling down. The range of Eco's interests and talents is such as to make him exemplary as a classic intellectual, for whom wide reading and capacious reflection are the distinguishing duties. Synonyms roomy, commodious, spacious, ample, big, large, sizeable, generous, extensive, substantial, vast, huge, immense Origin Early 17th century: from Latin capax, capac- ‘capable’ + -ious.
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