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Capacious vs Rangy - What's the difference?

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Capacious is a related term of rangy.


As adjectives the difference between capacious and rangy

is that capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy while rangy is slender and long of limb; lanky.

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

    rangy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slender and long of limb; lanky
  • :For an accountant, Robert had a rangy appearance.
  • :Her African violets weren't getting enough sun and became rangy .
  • Prone to roaming around with animal-like movements.
  • Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.
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