What's the difference between roommate and roomy?

Roommate


Definition:

  • (n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But my roommate wasn’t the only one who was victim-blaming; it was a person (or persons) in the jury.
  • (2) I’m trans-racial, my son’s trans-racial, my roommate is African American,” she said.
  • (3) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
  • (4) In comparison with control subjects, the roommates of persistently depressed persons displayed a progressive increase in BDI score over the course of the study.
  • (5) Subjects found compatibility with roommates and money management to be the biggest challenges.
  • (6) Dysphorics (n = 6) were more inclined to seek unfavorable feedback from their roommates than were nondepressives (n = 16); feedback-seeking activities of dysphorics were also associated with later rejection (Study 3).
  • (7) There was an altercation with guards, after which the roommate was removed to the Kingfisher isolation unit for three days.
  • (8) Obama's roommates were Paul Carpenter, a blond southern Californian who occasionally took his friends surfing (bodysurfing, in Barry's case), and Imad Husain, an intellectual Pakistani with a droll sense of humour who grew up in Karachi (though his parents now lived in Dubai) and finished his secondary education at Bedford School in the UK.
  • (9) This is a woman who was teenage roommates with Christy Turlington and is Nelson Mandela's honorary granddaughter, who has appeared in music videos for Bob Marley and George Michael, and whose ex-boyfriends include Robert De Niro and Mike Tyson.
  • (10) Measures of interpersonal behaviors exhibited by depressed college students toward their dormitory roommates were cluster analyzed, and this procedure produced 2 relatively distinct subgroups: a dependent, friendly, overgenerous type and an autocratic, competitive, aggressive, mistrustful type.
  • (11) I wasn’t surprised that this woman took so many wilful leaps past “couple” and landed on “roommates” in her split-second sussing-out of our relationship – it happens literally all the time.
  • (12) For comparative purposes, BDI scores were also obtained from roommates of individuals who were transiently depressed and from subjects with nondepressed roommates.
  • (13) Students and roommates were most often those responsible.
  • (14) "I found Joe on Craigslist and we became roommates by chance."
  • (15) This study examined the effect of preoperative roommate assignment on the preoperative anxiety and postoperative recovery of 27 male coronary-bypass patients.
  • (16) When I could actually sit up and move – not frozen lying down – I asked my roommate to take me to the hospital.
  • (17) The EBV infection rate among exposed and susceptible roommates of known cases was no higher than in roommates not so exposed.Elevations of EBV-specific and total IgM occurred during acute illness and disappeared in late convalescence.
  • (18) A roommate of Boyne’s denied that she called her that night.
  • (19) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
  • (20) Finally, depressed targets perceived their interpersonal impact negatively, whereas their normal roommates perceived their own interpersonal impact as overly positive.

Roomy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
  • (2) The Prius is roomy and very quiet - people almost don't know you're there.
  • (3) Recently refurbished, the roomy palais is the official residence of Ivan Rogers, David Cameron's former summit sherpa and, since November, Britain's ambassador to the EU.
  • (4) On Mars , the four initial residents – having been voted winners by the viewers from a pool of 40 – will get a roomy 50 sq m apartment each.
  • (5) Noises were described as “washy”, “pingy”, “chunky”, “spongy”, “roomy”, “blatty” and “futzy”.
  • (6) Lowlights included listening to my Tennant’s-swilling roomie play The Bends at 4am looped, fearfully locking myself in my attic room (lacking an escape route), deterring him from inviting a homeless man to stay over and declining his kind offer of accompanying him to a crack house.
  • (7) 137Cs is preferable in patients with roomy or irregular intrauterine cavities and also offers reduced radiation exposure to personnel.
  • (8) A flexor pad underneath the big toe eliminates the phenomenon, but in case of rigidity of the toe, extremely roomy toe boxes must be prescribed.
  • (9) Morgan’s roomy bag now signifies some vast hypocrisy.
  • (10) Every weekday morning the refurbished tube station, flanked by a Starbucks and a Sainsbury's, sucks in thousands of professionals of all races and nationalities, brought to the area by its transport links, vibrant atmosphere and wealth of couple-friendly flats carved out of roomy Victorian houses.
  • (11) "I have four kids," he said, pointing to the Chevy's roomy back seat, "and they all fit in there."
  • (12) "Donot buy plcm till i het guidance; want to make sure guidance OK," said the message from Roomy Khan, an ex-employee facing money problems who was trying to persuade Rajaratnam, the head of the hedge fund Galleon Group, to re-hire her.