Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Spacious; roomy: synonym: spacious.
- adjective Archaic Suitable; handy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beneficial; helpful; useful; favorable.
- Suitable; fit; proper; convenient; becoming: in a general sense.
- Affording good accommodation; convenient and roomy; suitable and spacious: as, a commodious dwelling; a commodious harbor.
- Synonyms Convenient, suitable, fit, proper, useful, comfortable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Spacious andconvenient ;roomy andcomfortable . - adjective Adapted to its use or purpose, or to
wants and necessities;suitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The head quarters at Newburgh consist of a single house, neither large nor commodious, which is built in the Dutch fashion.
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A set of rooms next to mine was vacant, and Campion, who welcomed a new worker, had the two sets thrown into what house-agents term a commodious flat.
Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896
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A year ago the necessities of Alfred Waltham's affairs had led to a change; he and his wife and their two children, together with Mrs. Waltham the dowager, removed to what the auctioneers call a commodious residence on the outskirts of Belwick.
Demos George Gissing 1880
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The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit.
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The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit.
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The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit.
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"My bed is something like the carpets in Queen Elizabeth's time, and this shelter-tent is not one which can be called commodious, but
The Associate Hermits Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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'commodious' by 'commodious as a college building' without altering our conclusion; though we can guess that the recipient, who thought he was in the lion-house of the Zoo, would be less likely to assent to.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Upon hearing the news, neighbor Amy Seidenwurm headed over to the store, donned her bee suit, and bravely herded the bees to a cardboard box, transferring them to "greener pastures where the flowers are dripping with nectar and hives are clean and commodious."
Boing Boing 2009
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But the beauty, the greatness, the glory — Mr. Meagher employed the word "majestic" to describe these mute but far from personality-free bar workers — of Old Town's urinals is that they're almost as commodious as a stall.
Porcelain Majesty Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
brtom commented on the word commodious
Corny might have given us a more commodious yoke, Mr Power said.
Joyce, Ulysses, 6
January 1, 2007