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capacious
/kəˈpeɪʃəs/
adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
commodious, many, most, popular
VERB + CAPACIOUS
found, rummaged
CAPACIOUS + NOUN
belly, bowl, con, handbag, iderd, pockets, sofas, theatre
PREP.
in, in, with
Definitions
adj
1
Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n
‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.
2
Capable, able.
[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.
As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power.
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I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n
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‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.
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The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frai
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She rummaged in her capacious handbag.
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A popular, capacious theatre in the city tempted many a moviegoer on a hot, sunny afternoon.
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I'm wearing a jacket with capacious pockets.
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