ROOMY (roomier, roomiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: roomier    , roomiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does roomy mean? 

• ROOMY (noun)
  The noun ROOMY has 1 sense:

1. an associate who shares a room with you

  Familiarity information: ROOMY used as a noun is very rare.

• ROOMY (adjective)
  The adjective ROOMY has 1 sense:

1. (of buildings and rooms) having ample space

  Familiarity information: ROOMY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An associate who shares a room with you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

roomie; roommate; roomy

Hypernyms ("roomy" is a kind of...):

friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)

• ROOMY (adjective)

Comparative: roomier   
Superlative: roomiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of buildings and rooms) having ample space

Synonyms:

roomy; spacious

Context example:

a spacious ballroom

Similar:

commodious; convenient (large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense))

Derivation:

room (space for movement)

roominess (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))

 Context examples 

As quiet as a monastery, and almost as roomy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roomy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was certainly more roomy than the ordinary four-wheeled disgrace to London, and the fittings, though frayed, were of rich quality.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows; it is not cramped into the vulgar compactness of a square farmhouse: it is a solid, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might suppose a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to three thousand a year in.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)