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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
Peter Ackroyd

Meaning of "capacious" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CAPACIOUS

From Latin capāx, from Latin capere to take.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CAPACIOUS

capacious  [kəˈpeɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAPACIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Capacious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CAPACIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of capacious in the English dictionary

The definition of capacious in the dictionary is capable of holding much; roomy; spacious.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAPACIOUS


audacious
ɔːˈdeɪʃəs
bodacious
bəʊˈdeɪʃəs
cepaceous
sɪˈpeɪʃəs
cretaceous
krɪˈteɪʃəs
curvaceous
kɜːˈveɪʃəs
dipterocarpaceous
ˌdɪptərəʊkɑːˈpeɪʃəs
drupaceous
druːˈpeɪʃəs
efficacious
ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs
flirtatious
flɜːˈteɪʃəs
gracious
ˈɡreɪʃəs
hellacious
hɛˈleɪʃəs
incapacious
ˌɪnkəˈpeɪʃəs
ostentatious
ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəs
rampacious
ræmˈpeɪʃəs
rapacious
rəˈpeɪʃəs
scolopaceous
ˌskɒləˈpeɪʃəs
spacious
ˈspeɪʃəs
tenacious
tɪˈneɪʃəs
vivacious
vɪˈveɪʃəs
voracious
vɒˈreɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAPACIOUS

capabilities
capability
Capablanca
capable
capableness
capably
capaciously
capaciousness
capacitance
capacitate
capacitation
capacities
capacitive
capacitively
capacitor
capacity
capacity attendance
capacity audience
capacity booking
capacity crowd

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAPACIOUS

atrocious
auspicious
bootylicious
conscious
delicious
ferocious
judicious
luscious
malicious
officious
pernicious
precious
precocious
previous
safety-conscious
self-conscious
specious
subconscious
suspicious
unconscious
vicious

Synonyms and antonyms of capacious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CAPACIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «capacious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of capacious

Translation of «capacious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAPACIOUS

Find out the translation of capacious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of capacious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «capacious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

广阔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de gran capacidad
570 millions of speakers

English

capacious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विशाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رحيب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вместительный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

espaçoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রশস্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vaste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Luas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

geräumig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

容量が大きい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

널찍한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inggil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rộng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விசாலமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विशाल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ferah
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

capiente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pojemna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

місткий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

încăpător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευρύχωρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ruim
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

capacious
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rommelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of capacious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPACIOUS»

The term «capacious» is regularly used and occupies the 105.399 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPACIOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about capacious

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4 QUOTES WITH «CAPACIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word capacious.
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Peter Ackroyd
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
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Henry Giroux
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
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Ernestine Rose
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.
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Laurence Tribe
I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPACIOUS»

Discover the use of capacious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to capacious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Firm Heart and Capacious Mind: The Life and Friends of ...
Firm Heart and Capacious Mind: The Life and Friends of Etienne Dumont is the first full-length biography of a Renaissance man, the statesman/publicist/jurist/political writer/man of letters who was hailed by Goethe, Macauley and Stendhal as ...
Jefferson P. Selth, 1997
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Our Coquettes: Capacious Desire in the Eighteenth Century
The book surveys stage comedies, periodical essays, satirical poems, popular songs, and didactic novels to show that the early coquette is a figure of capacious desire: she finds pleasure in a wide range of choices, refusing to narrow any ...
Theresa Braunschneider, 2009
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Capacious mememory:
The large format of the drawings, sometimes four metres wide, almost invites the beholder to 'enter into' the work. This book's large format makes the monumental context of the works palpable and allows space for the enthralling details.
‎2011
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Equity and Trusts
Capacious therefore brought an action against Mr Tang for, inter alia, a declaration that it was entitled to the equitable interest in the houses from when the agreement to transfer them was entered into, an account of the secret profit made by Mr ...
Scott Atkins, 2013
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English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
Phillips. My impatience for joor return, my anxiety tor your welfare, and tar fondness for my clear Ulysses, were tbe only distempers that preyed upon my life. Addison. AMPLE, SPACIOUS, CAPACIOUS. AMPLE, in French ample, Latin amplus, ...
George Crabb, 1818
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English Synonymes explained, in alphabetical order; with ...
capacious, in Latin'capaa', from capio to hold, signifies the quality of being able to hold. These epithets convey the analogous ideas of extent in uantit , and extent in space. Ample is figurative y emp oyed for whatever is extended in quantity ...
George Crabb, 1826
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One and the Same Method in English and Latin: A New and ...
Here, " Most " is the subordinate with reference to " capacious," but " Most capacious " is the subordinate of " dwellings ;" for the sense is not " capacious dwellings," but " Most capacious dwellings." 1 65. Again, " Much (the) most capacious ...
Harris Ray Greene, 1871
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One Method in English and Latin: A New and Original System, ...
Here, " Most " is the subordinate with reference to " capacious," but " Most capacious " is the subordinate of " dwellings ;" for the sense is not " capacious dwellings," but " Most capacious dwellings." 1 6«5. Again, " Much (the) most capacious ...
Harris Ray Greene, 1870
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Determinants of Capacious Memory
This work studies situations that correspond to the ability to accurately memorize a large amount of information.
Séverine Dubuc, 2005
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous ...
Anything which is more than barely sufficient is ample, whether in quantity, number, space, or degree of any sort. Spacious (spatium) expresses what is of superficial largeness, and Capacious (Latin eapnx) largeness in measures of internal ...
‎1871

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPACIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term capacious is used in the context of the following news items.
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Orange Is the New Black's third season is the show's best yet
But Kohan's appetite for humanity is capacious; she has abandoned the notion of "leads" altogether and pursued something more sprawling ... «Vox, Jul 15»
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'It's not like Argo': the trials of a tour guide in Iran
“Bad leg!” they grinned, clutching capacious, rustling sides. “Backache!” “High blood sugar!” Katryn tactfully prescribed remedies that were both ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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My Own Speech Code
... they're uttered ignores the wonderful variety of connotations in the capacious English language -- connotations good, bad and otherwise. «Town Hall, Jul 15»
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2016 Nissan Maxima First Test Review
So the 2016 Maxima is entertaining, but it's not as capacious inside as you might think. The car is definitely comfortable if you consider it as a ... «Motor Trend, Jul 15»
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Style Stars At The Festival Of Speed
2015 saw the twentieth running of the Style Et Luxe competition, held on the lawn outside Goodwood House's capacious stable block. A space ... «Speedhunters, Jul 15»
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Supreme Court overturns EPA air toxic rule for coal-fired power plants
The Supreme Court described the “appropriate and necessary” language chosen by Congress as “capacious” and held that it was ... «Electric Light & Power, Jul 15»
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Kiss Joins Global Superyacht Fleet After Delivery
The capacious main-deck VIP suite occupies the forward section of the superstructure with spectacular sea views thanks to the glazed bulwarks ... «Superyachts.com, Jul 15»
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Rebuilding a Kenyan packing operation from recycled materials
The result is impressive and the working environment it provides is capacious which means that staff have plenty of space in which to operate. «FreshPlaza, Jul 15»
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2015 Subaru Impreza 2.0i Limited: 0-100 in 5 Points or Less
The trunk is plenty capacious to boot. Fuel economy. The myth still exists. Yes, many still think that owning a car equipped with AWD will result ... «Auto123.com, Jul 15»
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Bobruisk-based tractor factory ships to Australia
We are also ready to design a tractor to meet requirements of Australian farmers in order to secure a foothold on this promising and capacious ... «Belarus News, Jul 15»

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