Word Meanings - COMMODIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts.

Additional info about word: COMMODIOUS

Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts. xxvii. 12. Syn. -- Convenient; suitable; fit; proper; advantageous; serviceable; useful; spacious; comfortable.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMODIOUS)

• Comfortable
• Snug
• satisfied
• pleasant
• agreeable
• cozy
• commodious
• convenient
• consoled
• Compendious
• Condensed
• concentrated
• brief
• short
• succinct
• concise
• abridged
• useful
• handy
• comprehensive
• compact
• Convenient
• Handy
• apt
• adapted
• fitted
• suitable
• helpful
• timely
• seasonable
• opportune

Related words: (words related to COMMODIOUS)

• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• COMMODIOUS
  Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts.
• CONCENTRATION
  The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water. (more info) 1. The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• COMMODIOUSNESS
  State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess. Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• INOPPORTUNELY
  Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
• INCOMPREHENSIVE
  Not comprehensive; not capable of including or of understanding; not extensive; limited. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ly, a. Sir W. Hamilton. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ness, n. T. Warton.
• DISCOMMODIOUS
  Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. Spenser. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ness, n.