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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roomy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it's also practical, roomy and well equipped.
▪ Its cabin is roomy and well-planned and full of equipment.
▪ The interior, although fairly basic in its design, is roomy and much better screwed together than a few years ago.
▪ The island has 24 roomy bungalows scattered about the beachfront, each with a wide verandah and excellent facilities.
▪ They would operate from roomy vicarages with ample grounds and were welcome guests at the highest tables in their parishes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roomy

Roomy \Room"y\, a. Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
roomy

"roomsome," 1620s, from room (n.) + -y (2). Related: Roominess.

Wiktionary
roomy

a. spacious, expansive, comfortable.

WordNet
roomy
  1. adj. (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparcely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom" [syn: spacious]

  2. [also: roomiest, roomier]

Usage examples of "roomy".

Great North Woods of Maine, but this was palpably not a Disney forest of roomy glades and cuddlesome creatures.

Then he walked back into the roomy interior of the vehicle, flipping foldable seats out of his way as he passed.

It was much larger than the one Jerana lived in, with several roomy houses of stone between humbler cottages.

He occupied a roomy dilapidated garret, au sixieme, in the Rue Tire-Liard, with a trucklebed and a pianoforte for furniture, and very little else.

In its normal form the burgonet was a large roomy cap with a brim shading the eyes, cheek-pieces or flaps, a comb, and a guard for the back of the neck.

The try-works are planted between the foremast and mainmast, the most roomy part of the deck.

The control room of the USS Allentown would look roomy to any Piranha-class sailor.

For almost two hundred years they had occupied their big piece of the Anatolian heartland, a rich place and roomy, and lived the lives of Gauls, heedless of the cultures surrounding them.

When I went into the bar to tell Irving what a good job he had done, Mademoiselle Markoff was waiting for me, wearing a red gown that would have been roomy on most Siamese triplets, but that fit her so snugly that I could see the huge mole on her left thigh right through it.

The roomy semisubterranean dwelling was strong and built to last many years.

The area was large and roomy, nearly twice the size of the box stalls at River Bend.

We lived with my stepparents, because the house was roomy, and besides, Smitty spent a lot of time at the ranch.

The car had a good roomy, comfy feel, and the dash was full of whizbang dials and gizmos, just as I remembered.

When the thing had left, Channa sank down on the bed, which was roomy enough to sleep three in comfort.

He could recall times only a few years earlier when the tub had seemed much roomier for his body.