Capacious vs Substantial - What's the difference?
capacious | substantial |
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 Having to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.
Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.
* "to do some substantial good, is the compensation for much incidental imperfection" - Cardinal Newman, The Rise and Progress of Universities
Corporeal; material; firm.
Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.
possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.
Large in size, quantity, or value; as, a substantial amount of money; vast
Most important; essential.
Ample or full.
Significantly great.
As adjectives the difference between capacious and substantial
is that capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy while substantial is having to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.As a noun substantial is
anything having substance; an essential part.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.}}
Synonyms
* (roomy) ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminoussubstantial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A substantial amount of people in this buliding
