capacious
adjective
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Pronunciation: /kəˈpeɪʃəs/
adj
Etymology: From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.
- Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
“I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n”
“‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.”
- Capable, able.
“[T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.”
“As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power.”