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commodious

adj
/kəˈməʊdɪ.əs/UK/kəˈmoʊdi.əs/US

Etymology

From Middle English commodious (“convenient, advantageous”), from Anglo-Norman commodious, Old French commodieux, directly from Medieval Latin commodiosus (“convenient, useful”), irregularly from Latin commodus (“suitable, fit, convenient”), from com- + modus (“measure, manner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). Analyzable as commode (“to provide with an appropriate or necessary thing; to suit”) + -ious.

  1. derived from *med-✻ — “to measure”
  2. derived from commodus — “suitable, fit, convenient”
  3. derived from commodiosus — “convenient, useful”
  4. derived from commodieux
  5. derived from commodious
  6. inherited from commodious — “convenient, advantageous”

Definitions

  1. Spacious and convenient

    Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.

    • Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
    • And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence […]
    • Contriving to place him within the vehicle, in a manner the most commodious to his situation, Douglas commended him to the driver's care, ordering him to convey him back to the spot whence he had brought him.

  2. Convenient, serviceable, suitable.

    • If they thinke that we ought to proue the ceremonies commodious which we haue reteined, they doe in this point very greatly deceiue themſelues.
    • There wallowing warm, th’ enormous herd exhales / An oily ſteam, and taints the noon-tide gales. / To that receſs, commodious for ſurprize, / When purple light shall ſuffuſe the skies, / […]

  3. Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.

    • I will now ſhew vnto you, an Example of a Shield, illuſtrated with manifold variety of Celeſtiall bodies, &c. Which will be very neceſſary and commodious to be inſerted in this place.
    • When a poſition teems thus with commodious conſequences, who can without regret confeſs it to be falſe?
    • A little after Zeluco came of age, the aunt fixed her eyes on him as a commodious match for her niece.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Of life or living, endowed with conveniences

      Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.

      • The Paſſions that encline man to Peace, are Feare of Death; Deſire of such things as are neceſſary to commodious living; and a Hope by their Induſtry to obtain them.
      • My Life (ſays Horace) ſpeaking to one of theſe Magnifico's) is a great deal more eaſie and commodious than thine, in that I can go into the Market and cheapen what I pleaſe without being wonder'd at; […]

    2. Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.

      • Patroclus will giue me any thing for the intelligence of / this whore: the Parrot will not doe more for an Almond, / then he for a commodious drab: […]
      • The dame's a most commodious quean, / A gypsy born, and go-hetween !

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Derived

commodiously, commodiousness, discommodious, incommodious, uncommodious

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