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# capacious

«capacious» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a lot of room inside; able to hold a great deal** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more capacious, most capacious)

### meaning for a pupil

Capacious means having a lot of room inside; able to hold a great deal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capacious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes big halls, bags or mouths in tales that can hold many people or things; the giant had a capacious mouth

### examples

- The capacious bag held all our shopping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capacious/#x1)
- The hall was so capacious that a thousand people could sit in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capacious/#x2)
- The giant swallowed the fowl with his capacious mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capacious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «capacious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capacious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.