Front | commodious |
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Pron | [kə'moʊdiəs] |
Back | 【commodious】 adj.宽敞的 The apartment is not commodious enough for his family to live in. 这公寓不够宽敞,无法住下我们全家。 |
Vocab | commodiouslarge and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
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. All forms of 'commodious' will appear on average once every 2473 pages. commodious commodiousness incommodious incommodiousness |
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