CAPACIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capacious mean? 

• CAPACIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective CAPACIOUS has 1 sense:

1. large in capacity

  Familiarity information: CAPACIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPACIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large in capacity

Context example:

she carried a capacious bag

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

capaciousness (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))

capacity ((computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive)

capacity (the amount that can be contained)

 Context examples 

Such a place was the Grotto, where Brissenden and he lounged in capacious leather chairs and drank Scotch and soda.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Don't take off your apron, whatever you do, it's peculiarly becoming, said Laurie, as Jo bestowed his especial aversion in her capacious pocket and offered her arm to support his feeble steps.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was a groove that bridged the Atlantic with uneventfulness, so that the ship was not a ship in the midst of the sea, but a capacious, many-corridored hotel that moved swiftly and placidly, crushing the waves into submission with its colossal bulk until the sea was a mill-pond, monotonous with quietude.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

His capacious waistcoat was suggestive of a large heart underneath.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Though a stranger in the house he finally isolated himself in the midst of the company, huddling into a capacious Morris chair and reading steadily from a thin volume he had drawn from his pocket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)