commodious — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.

   Synonyms

   spaciouscapaciousamplecommonious

   Examples

   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 […]

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   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.

2. Convenient, serviceable, suitable.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Synonyms

   becomingfitproperhandyuseful

   Examples

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

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   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.

3. Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

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   I will now ſhew vnto you, an Example of a Shield, illuſtrated with manifold variety of Celeſtiall bodies, &c. Which will be very neceſſary and commodious to be inſerted in this place.

   When a poſition teems thus with commodious conſequences, who can without regret confeſs it to be falſe?

   A little after Zeluco came of age, the aunt fixed her eyes on him as a commodious match for her niece.

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   Those who did not accept them became outcasts, or at least ran the risk of suffering such disagreeable consequences as to make acceptance of the ruling of public opinion the most commodious course to an ordinary mind.

4. Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

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   The Paſſions that encline man to Peace, are Feare of Death; Deſire of such things as are neceſſary to commodious living; and a Hope by their Induſtry to obtain them.

   My Life (ſays Horace) ſpeaking to one of theſe Magnifico's) is a great deal more eaſie and commodious than thine, in that I can go into the Market and cheapen what I pleaſe without being wonder'd at; […]

   The aim of government is peace, security and a commodious way of life, and if it attempts to impose upon a people by sheer force laws which they disapprove, resent and resist, they will not cooperate to provide it with the power it needs to enforce those laws and so far it will lose its right.

5. Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   Patroclus will giue me any thing for the intelligence of / this whore: the Parrot will not doe more for an Almond, / then he for a commodious drab: […]

   The dame's a most commodious quean, / A gypsy born, and go-hetween !

Adjective

1. large and roomy (‘convenient’ is archaic in this sense)

   Synonyms

   convenient

   Antonyms

   incommodious

   Examples

   a commodious harbor

   a commodious building suitable for conventions