(a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
(a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
(2) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(3) Certainly, deploying Kate "she's got the London look" Moss to deliver a sentimental plea to rebellious Scots shows that the Dame has been reading the Danny Boyle, post-Olympic playbook of pluralist, capacious unionism.
(4) The endometrial secretions play a major role in the capaciation of spermatozoa, and the nutrition of the blastocyst.
(5) Its fibroelastic characteristics allow construction of a capacious and compliant reservoir.
(6) Instead there needed to be “a broad church – capacious and generous”.
(7) Her review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, in Harper's magazine, accuses him of, among other things, philistinism: "He has turned the full force of his intellect against religion, and all his verbal skills as well, and his humane learning, too, which is capacious enough to include some deeply minor poetry."
(8) We are talking in his capacious Whitehall quarters with its fine view over St James's Park, and I pop a fairly obvious question: has he enjoyed the last year?
(9) The adverts – mainly for large watches, first-class air travel, portable fine art, tax haven accountants and capacious luggage – deliver a clear subliminal message.
(10) Can the mindset of multiculturalism be capacious enough to find a valued place even for those who complain about diversity?
(11) It is by definition a plural identity; it is multi-ethnic and that has offered a capaciousness for mass immigration in the 20th century.
(12) Since moving out of Downing Street, Blair's London home has been a capacious cream and dark brick terrace in Connaught Square, near Hyde Park, with a substantial mews house behind and armed policemen perpetually guarding both.
(13) The most capacious region of the digestive tract was the proximal colon (62-79% of contents).
(14) As a consequence of the capacious mobility and great strain, the glenohumeral joint happens to be a frequent site of tenderness or pain.
(15) "With an imagination as capacious as that of Hughes, what is there in the life that doesn't feed into the writing?"
(16) Giovanni Falcone , his wife Francesca Morvillo and the members of the security detail were killed in an explosion on the motorway near Capaci, 18km far from Palermo.
(17) The bowel it utilizes is of secondary importance for intestinal absorption, and the result is a low-pressure, capacious neobladder.
(18) Freud had a novelist's capaciousness; Reich was a headline writer.
(19) There are also concerns that the guidelines governing the capacious, double atrium newsroom at the £1bn revamped BBC New Broadcasting House headquarters in central London could be affecting safety after two incidents last month where staff were taken ill and required paramedics.
(20) Cystometric analysis reveals capacious reservoirs, low basal pressures, and a tendency toward pressure spikes at higher filling volumes.
Commodious
Definition:
(a.) Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certain biologic principles prompt consideration of segmental mastectomy and axillary node sampling as an alternative, commodious form of treatment for such lesions.
(2) Sites commodious enough and with sufficient conserved carboxylate ligands to accommodate such a nucleus occur inside the protein coat at the subunit dimer interfaces.
(3) Everyone enmeshed will fervently hope so – especially Rupert Murdoch, who's bankrolled his publishing arm by lumping in his own commodious Australian TV profits to keep the newsprint show on the road.