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Capacious vs Bountiful - What's the difference?

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Capacious is a related term of bountiful.


As adjectives the difference between capacious and bountiful

is that capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy while bountiful is having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.

capacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • 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 frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage= “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.}}

    Synonyms

    * (roomy) ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous

    Related terms

    * capable * capacity

    bountiful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bountifull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}