roomy

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UK/ˈɹuːmi/UK/ˈɹʊmi/

adjective

Spacious, expansive, comfortable.

“Our new apartment is roomy enough to accommodate all our furniture.”

Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveroomy (comparative roomier, superlative roomiest)

comparative roomier · superlative roomiest

  1. Spacious, expansive, comfortable.

    Our new apartment is roomy enough to accommodate all our furniture.

    4 more examples

    The cab, with two side windows, was one of the most roomy and comfortable in the country at that time.

    1961 February 28, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claud Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115

    For years, SeatGuru.com has been the go-to destination for travelers intent on discovering the roomiest seats farthest from the bathrooms, which you can do with a cursory glance at the site’s color-coded airplane maps: green for good seats, yellow for potential drawbacks like misaligned windows or restricted legroom, green and yellow for mixed reviews, red for bad seats.

    2013 July 31, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Finding a Seat That Fits on a Flight”, in The New York Times

    Over the last two decades, the space between seats — hardly roomy before — has fallen about 10 percent, from 34 inches to somewhere between 30 and 32 inches. Today, some airlines are pushing it even further, leaving only a knee-crunching 28 inches.

    2013 December 23, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, The New York Times, retrieved 23 Dec 2013

    So BMW has conjured a tweener — a roomier hatchback on platform shoes, with standard all-wheel drive — to attract customers who crave the 3 Series’ performance but need more utility to close the deal.

    2014 February 21, Lawrence Ulrich, “Get Your $50,000 Hatchback Here”, in The New York Times

    Synonyms: commodious

nounroomy (plural roomies)

plural roomies

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of roomie.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveSpacious, expansive, comfortable.

Similar

More synonyms by meaning

adjective(of buildings and rooms) having ample space

nounan associate who shares a room with you

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*Hrew-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(H)rewH-
  3. Proto-Germanic*rūmą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*rūm
  5. Old Englishrūm
  6. Middle Englishroum
  7. Englishroom
  8. Englishroomy

From room + -y.

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Translations

Arabic وَاسِع, رَحْب
  • وَاسِع (wāsiʕ)spacious
  • رَحْب (raḥb)spacious
Bulgarian просторен
  • просторен (prostoren)spacious
Catalan espaiós
  • espaiósspacious
Chinese Mandarin 寬敞 /宽敞, 廣闊 /广阔
  • 寬敞 /宽敞 (kuānchang)spacious
  • 廣闊 /广阔 (guǎngkuò)spacious
  • 寬廣 /宽广 (kuānguǎng)spacious
  • 寬大 /宽大 (kuāndà)spacious
  • 敞 (chǎng)spacious
Czech prostorný
  • prostornýspacious
Dutch ruim
  • ruimspacious
Esperanto vasta
  • vastaspacious
Finnish tilava, väljä
  • tilavaspacious
  • väljäspacious
French spacieux, ample
  • spacieuxspacious
  • amplespacious
  • grandspacious
  • logeablespacious
German geräumig, weit
  • geräumigspacious
  • weitspacious
Japanese 広い, 広々とした
  • 広い (hiroi)spacious
  • 広々とした (hirobiro to shita)spacious
  • 広々 (hirobiro)spacious
Latin capax, laxus
  • capaxspacious
  • laxusspacious
  • spatiōsusspacious
Persian راحَت, جادار
  • راحَتspacious
  • جادارspacious
  • گُنجاspacious
Polish obszerny, przestronny
  • obszernyspacious
  • przestronnyspacious
Portuguese espaçoso, amplo
  • espaçosospacious
  • amplospacious
Romanian spațios, amplu
  • spațiosspacious
  • ampluspacious
  • încăpătorspacious
Russian просто́рный
  • просто́рный (prostórnyj)spacious
Spanish espacioso, amplio
  • espaciosospacious
  • ampliospacious
  • desahogadospacious
Swedish rymlig
  • rymligspacious
Ukrainian просто́рий
  • просто́рий (prostóryj)spacious

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APA

roomy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/roomy

MLA

“roomy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/roomy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “roomy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/roomy.

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