commodious
/kəˈmoʊdi.əs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
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."
Etymology
From Middle English commodious (“convenient, advantageous”), from Anglo-Norman commodious, Old French commodieux, directly from Medieval Latin commodiosus (“convenient, useful”), irregularly from Latin commodus (“suitable, fit, convenient”), from com- + modus (“measure, manner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). Analyzable as commode (“to provide with an appropriate or necessary thing; to suit”) + -ious.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈmoʊdi.əs/
- British English: /kəˈməʊdɪ.əs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more commodious (comparative)
most commodious (superlative)