- spacious
- spacious, commodious, capacious, ample are comparable when they mean larger in extent than the average.Spacious implies great length and breadth and, sometimes, height; primarily, it is applied to things that have bounds or walls{
spacious rooms
}{spacious gardens
}{the whole interior ... a dim, spacious, fragrant place, afloat with golden lights— Pater
}{none of them were mansions but they were spacious and faced on neat lawns— Styron
}In its extended use, though it usually implies limits, it suggests largeness, sweep, and freedom within those limits{the spacious times of great Elizabeth— Tennyson
}{one great spacious golden morning followed another— Powys
}Commodious stresses roominess and freedom from hampering constriction along with convenience and comfortableness{my mother's room is very commodious, is it not? Large and cheerful looking— Austen
}{the commodious first-class grandstand ... is built not only for comfort but for pleasant living— Dobie
}Capacious stresses the ability to hold, contain, and, sometimes, receive or retain, more than the ordinary thing of its kind{the dull girls, with their slow but capacious memories— Gallant
}{provides a capacious rack in its clubrooms which is daily filled with press releases— Mott
}{fumbled in a capacious pocket of the old-fashioned sort— Sayers
}{[m2[Ample basically means more than adequate or sufficient (as in size, expanse, or amount)the capacious soul of Shakespeare— Hazlitt
}{ample funds
}{an ample garden
}It may suggest fullness and bulk{she held the child beneath the folds of her ample cloak
}{an imposing creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in alarmingly— Maugham
}and in extended use it often suggests freedom to expand or absence of trammels or limitations{a government, entrusted with such ample powers— John Marshall
}{religious experience which opens to him an even ampler world, even greater issues— R. W. Livingstone
}
New Dictionary of Synonyms. 2014.
