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Capacious vs Spacious - What's the difference?

capacious | spacious | Synonyms |

Spacious is a antonym of capacious.

Spacious is a synonym of capacious.



As adjectives the difference between capacious and spacious

is that capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy while spacious is having much space; roomy.

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!
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    • , 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

    spacious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having much space; roomy
    • The apartment has a spacious bedroom . . .
  • Large in expanse
    • . . and it has a spacious view of the mountains.