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Capacious

//kəˈpeɪʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

    "I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n"

  2. 2
    Capable, able. figuratively

    "[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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    large in capacity wordnet

Etymology

From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.

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