capacious

[US]/kəˈpeɪʃəs/
[UK]/kəˈpeɪʃəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. spacious; having a grand or generous quality.

Example Sentences

a man of capacious mind

she rummaged in her capacious handbag.

Because this also can see, floor of false and inferior wood still has capacious vivosphere.

Real-world Examples

His capacious waistcoat was suggestive of a large heart underneath.

Source: Little Women (Bilingual Edition)

His flowing gown had two capacious sleeves.

Source: Journey to the West: One China, Two English Versions

Artists have a vision of humans as capacious; they don't view people as tools, and that attitude promotes habits of hope.

Source: Newsweek

It is a capacious concept, one that takes in Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

Source: The Economist Culture

Meanwhile cans of gasoline were fetched from a dump close by, and emptied into the exceptionally capacious tanks.

Source: The Disappearing Horizon

Certainly there was no lack of craters, and there were some capacious enough to throw out a whole army!

Source: The Journey to the Heart of the Earth

I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious hand-bag in which I had intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours.

Source: Not to be taken lightly.

The table was comfortably laid—no silver in the service, of course—and at the side of his chair was a capacious dumb-waiter, with a variety of bottles and decanters on it, and four dishes of fruit for dessert.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

Mrs. Penniman was silent a little, and her smile beneath the shadow of her capacious bonnet, on the edge of which her black veil was arranged curtain-wise, fixed itself upon Morris's face with a still more tender brilliancy.

Source: Washington Square

Many of them clung as tenaciously to their mother tongue as they did to their capacious farmhouses or their Dutch ovens; but they were slowly losing their identity as the English pressed in beside them to farm and trade.

Source: American history

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