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Commodious vs Capacious - What's the difference?

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Capacious is a synonym of commodious.



As adjectives the difference between commodious and capacious

is that commodious is spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable while capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy.

commodious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
    • Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
  • * 1854 , Charles Dickens, Hard Times
    • The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
  • Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; suitable.

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    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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    Synonyms

    * (roomy) ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous

    Related terms

    * capable * capacity