Capacious
adjective
Able to hold or contain a lot; large in capacity.
The hikers needed a capacious backpack to fit all the necessary gear.
adjective
Able to hold or contain a lot of things; having a lot of space inside.
The capacious attic was filled with antique furniture.
adjective
Having a wide scope; comprehensive.
Their capacious understanding of the subject impressed the professor.
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Able to receive and hold much; roomy, spacious.
The capacious halls of the historical mansion were impressive.
adjective
Able to hold or contain a lot; large in capacity.
The hikers needed a capacious backpack to fit all the necessary gear.
adjective
Able to hold or contain a lot of things; having a lot of space inside.
The capacious attic was filled with antique furniture.
adjective
Having a wide scope; comprehensive.
Their capacious understanding of the subject impressed the professor.
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Able to receive and hold much; roomy, spacious.
The capacious halls of the historical mansion were impressive.
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Used mostly for describing objects with large physical space or volume.
She bought a capacious suitcase for her world tour.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Crowded
Implies comfort by indicating there's plenty of available space; not cramped.
The capacious conference room was ideal for their workshop.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Used mostly for describing objects with large physical space or volume.
She bought a capacious suitcase for her world tour.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Crowded
Implies comfort by indicating there's plenty of available space; not cramped.
The capacious conference room was ideal for their workshop.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Used mostly for describing objects with large physical space or volume.
She bought a capacious suitcase for her world tour.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Crowded
Implies comfort by indicating there's plenty of available space; not cramped.
The capacious conference room was ideal for their workshop.
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Quote examples
Amy Chua
American Educator
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
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Peter Ackroyd
British Author
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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William Godwin
English Writer
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Artist
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
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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Ross Douthat
American Author
I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, 'Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.
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Ross Douthat
American Author
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.
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Laurence Tribe
American Lawyer
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.
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Henry Giroux
American Critic
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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Amy Chua
American Educator
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
Quote examples
Peter Ackroyd
British Author
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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William Godwin
English Writer
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Artist
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
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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Ross Douthat
American Author
I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, 'Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.
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Ross Douthat
American Author
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.
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Laurence Tribe
American Lawyer
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.
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Henry Giroux
American Critic
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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