capacious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   large in capacity

   They carried a capacious bag for all of the potential groceries.

2. 2
   adj

   Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

   I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n

3. 3
   adj

   Capable, able.

   [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.

Etymology

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