Capacious vs Plentiful - What's the difference?
capacious | plentiful | Related terms |
Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
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Yielding abundance; fruitful.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) lavish; profuse; prodigal
* Francis Bacon
Capacious is a related term of plentiful.
As adjectives the difference between capacious and plentiful
is that capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy while plentiful is existing in large number or ample amount.capacious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- 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!
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Synonyms
* (roomy) ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminousplentiful
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Alternative forms
* plentifull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- a plentiful harvest
- a plentiful supply of water
- She accumulated a plentiful collection of books.
- Some years, the tree is a plentiful source of apples.
- If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year.
- He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from decay.
