English Explanatory Dictionary

commodious

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/kəˈməʊdɪ.əs/ /kəˈmoʊdi.əs/ en-us-commodious.ogg

Word forms

commodious more commodious most commodious

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.

Synonyms

spacious capacious ample commonious becoming fit proper handy useful

Antonyms

incommodious

Related words

accommodate accommodation commode commodity incommode incommodity

Derived words

commodiously commodiousness discommodious incommodious uncommodious
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