Capacious vs Greedy - What's the difference?
capacious | greedy |
Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
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, chapter=1 Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
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, title= Prone to overeat.
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As adjectives the difference between capacious and greedy
is that capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy while greedy is having greed; consumed by selfish desires.capacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
citation, passage= “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.}}
Synonyms
* (roomy) ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminousgreedy
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
