capacious kəˈpeɪʃəs adjective
: large in the amount that can be contained
The word capacious has appeared 82 times on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 31 in The New York Times Magazine article “‘Frankenstein’ Has Always Held Up a Mirror. What Does It Show Us Now?” by Parul Sehgal:
If Victor was so brilliant and could animate flesh, why couldn’t he reanimate an intact body? But this was Shelley’s “work,” in every sense, the piecing and patching together of parts, of sewing the clothes that might bear a body through new life and death, of weaving a story capacious enough to contain her prodigious self-education, the pain of losing her children, her mother’s absence, her father’s abandonment, the exhilaration of thinking alongside her husband and friends.
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