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capacious

adj
/kəˈpeɪʃəs/

Etymology

From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.

  1. derived from numol

Definitions

  1. Having a lot of space inside

    Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

    • I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n
    • ‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.

  2. Capable, able.

    • As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power.

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Derived

capaciously, capaciousness, incapacious, uncapacious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at capacious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at capacious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at capacious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA