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!

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Voracious; avaricious.

* 1787 , :

To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious .

Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.

* 1910 , :

A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.

Subsisting off live prey.

* 1827 , :

Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]