What's the difference between roomy and spacious?

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.

Spacious


Definition:

  • (n.) Extending far and wide; vast in extent.
  • (n.) Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scheveningen's prison's spacious, individual cells and family rooms for visits may soon seem luxurious in comparison with the cold comfort of life behind bars in England.
  • (2) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.
  • (3) Judgments were made on eight separate sound quality dimensions (brightness, clarity, fullness, loudness, nearness, overall impression, smoothness, and spaciousness) for each of the three stimuli in three listening environments.
  • (4) The barn where we ate and did classes was more than spacious enough for our group of 10, with underfloor heating and two wood burners making it feel positively tropical in December.
  • (5) Then there are lighter-than-air airships – at present only niche players, but in the eyes of some, aviation's best long-term bet, capable of offering spacious facilities, comfort and train-like speeds for the leisure and business travel market of the future.
  • (6) There are two large glands, "Paraproctic glands" according to Schaffer (1940), whose spacious cavity is bounded by a secretory epithelium.
  • (7) If the lifts work, the flats are spacious and there are trees and places to play, such rented accommodation would benefit every city.
  • (8) A technique to reconstruct totally contracted sockets forms spacious, deep ocular fornices to accommodate ocular prostheses.
  • (9) Floor-to-ceiling windows offer sublime views of the vast fjord, with Wi-Fi, spacious hot showers and a black stone bathroom scoring extra luxury points.
  • (10) While many, particularly older Albanians, are unconcerned about the gradual obliteration of the concrete reminders of a brutal, highly militarised regime, others believe the igloo-shaped pillboxes and spacious underground shelters should remain.
  • (11) But it won out, Abeed said, thanks to its spacious rooms, waterside position and good view.
  • (12) Two new and vast mansions sit on distant hilltops, and a neighbourhood of spacious, colonial-style homes is spreading in all directions, all apparently reserved for the military elite.
  • (13) Anterior and posterior distribution of the flaps makes it possible to recreate a spacious single cavity.
  • (14) From an analysis of the phenotypes of these patients and others reported with 10q trisomy, we propose that the trisomy 10q 24-26 syndrome includes: growth and mental retardation, a characteristic facies (microcephaly, flat face with spacious forehead, small nose, depressed nasal bridge, arched wide-spaced eyebrows, blepharophimosis, microphthalmia, low-set ears, bow-shaped mouth with prominent upper lip, micrognathia), palate anomalies (high-arched cleft or agenesis), congenital heart disease, and anomalies of the hands and feet.
  • (15) The lifting work was approximately 50% less in the modern ward, which has easily maneuvered electric overhead hoists, spacious premises and better work organization than in the traditional ward, even though the patient handling needs were equivalent.
  • (16) As residents, we want to stay here because we love our well-designed, bright and spacious homes.
  • (17) The striving for spaciousness in residential areas and the creation of a "summer city" or "garden city" image or a "family-centred way of life" may lead to unexpected problems and have a variety of social consequences.
  • (18) Photograph: Alamy Where to stay Archondissa Set in its own, lovely, gardens, and right by the beach on the edge of the village of Therma, these apartments are spacious and well furnished.
  • (19) Rooms are spacious, with some offering river views, and the Eat & Sleep package (from $155) provides $20pp to spend on food and drink at the hotel.
  • (20) Behind the austere facade of the spacious Hefei intermediate people's court, the courtroom is too cramped for foreign media to watch as Gu, 53, and family employee Zhang Xiaojun, 33, stand trial, officials insist.