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capacious

UK/kəˈpeɪʃəs/US/kəˈpeɪʃəs/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,355 of 15,258leans written

Capacious means able to hold a great deal. A capacious bag, capacious pockets, a capacious memory.

It belongs to containers and to memories, and it is a compliment in both. It is a relative of capacity and of capable, all from the Latin meaning to take or hold.

Definitions of capacious

  1. 1adjectivecapaciousAble to hold a great deal.C2

    “She pulled a book, an umbrella and a sandwich out of her capacious handbag.”

capacious is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin capax means able to hold, from capere, to take.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *kap-

  2. English, today

    capacious

From capāx + ious. Displaced native numol.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

capacious in the wild

  • The mouth is capacious, containing many small teeth and lacking furrows at the corners.

    Cephaloscyllium

  • Madre de Deus was a Portuguese ocean-going carrack, renowned for her capacious cargo and provisions for long voyages.

    Madre de Deus

  • Kuhn was a capacious bark acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

    USS J. C. Kuhn

  • USS Pampero was a large) and capacious ship-rigged vessel purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

    USS Pampero

  • The harbour, now called Porto Rafti, is the best on the eastern coast of Attica, and is both deep and capacious.

    Prasiae (Attica)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.