COMMODIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commodious mean? 

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

1. large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMODIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense)

Synonyms:

commodious; convenient

Context example:

a commodious building suitable for conventions

Similar:

roomy; spacious ((of buildings and rooms) having ample space)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Antonym:

incommodious (uncomfortably or inconveniently small)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

“It's not a bad situation,” said I, “and the rooms are really commodious.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"But perhaps your accommodations—your cottage—your furniture—have disappointed your expectations? They are, in truth, scanty enough; but—" I interrupted—My cottage is clean and weather-proof; my furniture sufficient and commodious.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My mother's room is very commodious, is it not?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I heard a very warm debate between two professors, about the most commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without grieving the subject.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

From bye-path, from woodland clearing, or from winding moor-side track these little rivulets of steel united in the larger roads to form a broader stream, growing ever fuller and larger as it approached the nearest or most commodious seaport.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Crawford found a sister without preciseness or rusticity, a sister's husband who looked the gentleman, and a house commodious and well fitted up; and Mrs. Grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roomy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The room in question was of a commodious, well-proportioned size, and handsomely fitted up as a dining-parlour; and on their quitting it to walk round the grounds, she was shown, first into a smaller apartment, belonging peculiarly to the master of the house, and made unusually tidy on the occasion; and afterwards into what was to be the drawing-room, with the appearance of which, though unfurnished, Catherine was delighted enough even to satisfy the general.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)