commodious
Americanadjective
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spacious and convenient; roomy.
a commodious apartment.
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ample or adequate for a particular purpose.
a commodious harbor.
adjective
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(of buildings, rooms, etc) large and roomy; spacious
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archaic suitable; convenient
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of commodious
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin commodiōsus, equivalent to Latin commodi ( tās ) convenience ( see commodity) + -ōsus -ous
Explanation
If your house has a big and comfortable living room, you could say that you have a commodious space for entertaining. Commodious means roomy. Yes, you see the word, commode — i.e. toilet — in commodious. Both words once had the meaning of convenience attached to them from their Latin roots. Indoor plumbing is in fact convenient when you compare it with the alternative as is having room to spare. But that meaning was left behind years ago.
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Example Sentences
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The New Bath Guide of 1778 mentioned "…a commodious cold-bath, with convenient dressing-rooms".
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2023
The seats don’t recline but they are commodious, with a cute love seat in the front row if you’re on a date night.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2022
Roger Ebert called “Johnny Guitar” “one of the most blatant psychosexual melodramas ever to disguise itself in that most commodious of genres, the western.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
On the evidence of “Troubled Blood,” the fifth and latest Galbraith novel, that playground has grown deeper and more commodious than ever.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2020
The ladies’ room at Sickler’s was almost as large as the dining room proper, and, in a special sense, appeared to be hardly less commodious.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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