spacious

English

Alternative forms

• spatious (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English spacious, from Old French spacios, from Latin spatiōsus. By surface analysis, space +‎ -ious.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

spacious (comparative more spacious, superlative most spacious)

1. 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.

   • 2026 August 15, Irene Adeline Milanez, “We tasted boba from some of the Bay Area’s most popular chains. Here’s our No. 1”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 August 2026:

     Its unusually spacious Berkeley location, with its high ceilings and variety of seating options, feels totally dedicated to the enjoyment of tea.

2. Large in expanse.

   The cabin offers a lovely spacious view of the mountain meadows.

Derived terms

• overspacious
• spaciously
• spaciousness
• unspacious

Translations

having much space; roomy

• Arabic: وَاسِع (wāsiʕ), رَحْب (ar) (raḥb), فَسِيح (fasīḥ)
• Asturian: espaciosu
• Bashkir: иркен (erkin)
• 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)

• Czech: prostorný (cs)
• Dutch: ruimtelijk (nl)
• Finnish: tilava (fi)
• French: spacieux (fr), ample (fr), grand (fr), logeable (fr)
• Galician: espazoso, amplo (gl)
• German: geräumig (de)
• Gothic: 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐍃 (rums)
• Greek: ευρύχωρος (el) (evrýchoros), άνετος (el) (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
• Macedonian: простран (prostran)
• Norwegian: rommelig, romslig
• Persian: جادار (fa) (jâdâr)
• Polish: przestronny (pl)
• Portuguese: espaçoso (pt)
• Romanian: spațios (ro)
• Russian: просто́рный (ru) (prostórnyj)
• Sanskrit: विशाल (sa) (viśāla), पृथु (sa) (pṛthú)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀стран

  Latin: pròstran (sh)

• Spanish: espacioso (es), desahogado (es), amplio (es) m
• Swedish: rymlig (sv), spatiös (sv)
• Tagalog: maliwalas, maluwag, malawak (tl)
• Turkish: geniş (tr), engin (tr), ferah (tr), açık (tr), havadar (tr), bol bol (tr)
• Ukrainian: просто́рий (prostóryj)
• 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)
• Galician: amplo (gl), ancho (gl), largo (gl), vasto
• German: weiträumig (de)
• Greek: ευρύς (el) (evrýs), εκτεταμένος (el) (ektetaménos)
• Irish: fairsing, scóipiúil
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: obszerny (pl)
• Russian: обши́рный (ru) (obšírnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шѝрок

  Latin: šìrok (sh)

• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎈𐎁 (rḥb)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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