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In some senses, commodious is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
capacious, copious, most, old
VERB + COMMODIOUS
manner
COMMODIOUS + NOUN
sandwiches, situation, winter
PREP.
in, than
adj
Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence […]
Convenient, serviceable, suitable.
If they thinke that we ought to proue the ceremonies commodious which we haue reteined, they doe in this point very greatly deceiue themſelues.
There wallowing warm, th’ enormous herd exhales / An oily ſteam, and taints the noon-tide gales. / To that receſs, commodious for ſurprize, / When purple light shall ſuffuſe the skies, / […]
Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.
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.
When a poſition teems thus with commodious conſequences, who can without regret confeſs it to be falſe?
Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.
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.
My Life (ſays Horace) ſpeaking to one of theſe Magnifico's) is a great deal more eaſie and commodious than thine, in that I can go into the Market and cheapen what I pleaſe without being wonder'd at; […]
Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.
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: […]
The dame's a most commodious quean, / A gypsy born, and go-hetween !
adjective — large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
WiktionaryAnd because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence […]
WiktionaryContriving to place him within the vehicle, in a manner the most commodious to his situation, Douglas commended him to the driver's care, ordering him to convey him back to the spot whence he had brou
WiktionaryI found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
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In some senses, commodious is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.