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capacious
Meaning: having plenty of room inside
capacious in a sentence
How capacious is used in real sentences:
The capacious hall accommodated hundreds of guests with ease.
Workers stored the entire harvest inside the capacious barn.
“Each participant entered a capacious booth containing two locked boxes, a stack of cards, and enough table space to sort them privately.”
— from the passage Answers Behind a Screen
Synonyms for capacious
Other words for capacious — roomy, spacious and ample — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of capacious
Words that mean the opposite of capacious:
- confined
- cramped
- tiny
Where it comes from
From Latin capax, meaning 'able to hold much.'
Memory hook
CAPACIOUS contains CAPACITY; something capacious has plenty of capacity.