Commodious

/kəˈməʊdɪ.əs/ · adjective

Meaning

Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable..

Definitions by Sense

1. Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
2. (archaic) Convenient, serviceable, suitable.
3. (now rare) Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.
4. (now rare) Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.
5. (obsolete) Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.

Example Sentences

Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.

And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence […]

Contriving to place him within the vehicle, in a manner the most commodious to his situation, Douglas commended him to the driver's care, ordering him to convey him back to the spot whence he had brought him.

The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.

Meanwhile the T'ai-Yuan-Fu Boys' Boarding School had been transferred to new, more commodious and well-equipped buildings on the Hsing-Hua-Ling site.

If they thinke that we ought to proue the ceremonies commodious which we haue reteined, they doe in this point very greatly deceiue themſelues.

There wallowing warm, th’ enormous herd exhales / An oily ſteam, and taints the noon-tide gales. / To that receſs, commodious for ſurprize, / When purple light shall ſuffuſe the skies, / […]

By this way the English general had chosen to approach the metropolis, both as most commodious for this cavalry, and as being probably of opinion that by doing so, he would meet in front with the Highlanders advancing from Edinburgh in the opposite direction.

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• more commodious
• most commodious

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