spacious

Alternative forms

spatious (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English spacious, from Old French spacios, from Latin spatiōsus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

spacious (comparative more spacious, superlative most spacious)

Having plenty of space; roomy; capacious.
The apartment has a spacious bedroom.
- 2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:
  But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
Large in expanse.
The cabin offers a lovely spacious view of the mountain meadows.

Derived terms

Translations

having much space; roomy

Arabic: وَاسِع (wāsiʕ), رَحْب (ar) (raḥb), فَسِيح (fasīḥ)
Asturian: espaciosu
Bashkir: иркен (irken)
Bulgarian: обширен (bg) (obširen), просторен (bg) (prostoren)
Catalan: espaiós
Chinese:
Hokkien: 闊 / 阔 (zh-min-nan) (khoah), 寬瓏瓏 / 宽珑珑 (khòaⁿ-long-long)

Mandarin: 寬敞 / 宽敞 (zh) (kuānchang), 敞 (zh) (chǎng)
Dutch: ruimtelijk (nl)
Finnish: tilava (fi)
French: spacieux (fr), ample (fr), grand (fr), logeable (fr)
Galician: espazoso
German: geräumig (de)
Gothic: 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐍃 (rums)
Greek: ευρύχωρος (el) (evrýchoros), άνετος (el) m (ánetos)
Hungarian: tágas (hu)
Irish: áirgiúil, spásmhar
Italian: spazioso (it)
Japanese: 広い (ja) (ひろい, hiroi), 広々 (ja) (ひろびろ, hirobiro)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: فراوان (frawan)
Latin: capax, laxus, spatiōsus
Norwegian: rommelig, romslig
Persian: جادار (fa) (jâdâr)
Polish: przestronny (pl) m
Portuguese: espaçoso (pt)
Romanian: spațios (ro)
Russian: просто́рный (ru) (prostórnyj)
Sanskrit: विशाल (sa) (viśāla), पृथु (sa) (pṛthú)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: про̀стран

Roman: pròstran (sh)
Spanish: espacioso (es), desahogado (es), amplio (es) m
Swedish: rymlig (sv), spatiös (sv)
Tagalog: maliwalas, maluwag, malawak (tl)
Vietnamese: rộng (vi)

large in expanse

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: широк (bg) (širok), обширен (bg) (obširen)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 廣闊 / 广阔 (zh) (guǎngkuò), 寬廣 / 宽广 (zh) (kuānguǎng),
Esperanto: vasta (eo)
Finnish: avara (fi)
German: weiträumig (de)
Greek: ευρύς (el) m (evrýs), εκτεταμένος (el) m (ektetaménos)
Irish: fairsing, scóipiúil
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: obszerny (pl) m
Russian: обши́рный (ru) (obšírnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шѝрок

Roman: šìrok (sh)
Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎈𐎁 (rḥb)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} vasta (eo)
Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ვრცელი (vrceli)
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} విశాలమైన (viśālamaina)