commodious
形容词 adj.
英 /kəˈməʊdɪ.əs/
美 /kəˈmoʊdi.əs/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
— Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
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Convenient, serviceable, suitable.
— 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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Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.
— 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.
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Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.
— 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.
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Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.
— 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: […]
词汇关系
词源
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.
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