Commodious

//kəˈməʊdɪ.əs// adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.

    "Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment."

  2. 2
    Convenient, serviceable, suitable. archaic

    "If they thinke that we ought to proue the ceremonies commodious which we haue reteined, they doe in this point very greatly deceiue themſelues."

  3. 3
    Advantageous, profitable, beneficial. archaic

    "I will now ſhew vnto you, an Example of a Shield, illuſtrated with manifold variety of Celeſtiall bodies, &c. Which will be very neceſſary and commodious to be inſerted in this place."

  4. 4
    Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship. archaic

    "The Paſſions that encline man to Peace, are Feare of Death; Deſire of such things as are neceſſary to commodious living; and a Hope by their Induſtry to obtain them."

  5. 5
    Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful. obsolete

    "Patroclus will giue me any thing for the intelligence of / this whore: the Parrot will not doe more for an Almond, / then he for a commodious drab: […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    large and roomy (‘convenient’ is archaic in this sense) wordnet

Synonyms

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amplebroadcapaciousconvenientroomyserviceable

Example

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"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

Etymology

From Middle English commodious (“convenient, advantageous”), from Anglo-Norman commodious, Old French commodieux, directly from Medieval Latin commodiosus (“convenient, useful”), irregularly from Latin commodus (“suitable, fit, convenient”), from com- + modus (“measure, manner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). Analyzable as commode (“to provide with an appropriate or necessary thing; to suit”) + -ious.

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