Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: capacious
IPA transcription: [kəp'eɪʃəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: capacious
    Meaning: large in capacity; "she carried a capacious bag"
Usage examples
  • CHEST--The chest, deep and capacious, but not too wide.
  • Then drawing the piece of curved iron out of his capacious pocket, he applied it to a hoof-print conspicuously outlined in the turf.
  • The trees are stripped of their nodding burdens, which, easily freed from the rind and core, are gathered together in capacious wooden vessels, where the pulpy fruit is soon worked by a stone pestle, vigorously applied, into a blended mass of a doughy consistency, called by the natives 'Tutao'.
  • A flight of smooth double chins led down to the dizzy depths of a still-snowy bosom veiled in snowy muslins that were held in place by a miniature portrait of the late Mr. Mingott; and around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious armchair, with two tiny white hands poised like gulls on the surface of the billows.