Capacious vs Rangy - What's the difference?
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Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
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, chapter=1 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.
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)- 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!
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.}}