Etymology
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room + -y
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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roomy (comparative roomier, superlative roomiest)
- Spacious, expansive, comfortable.
Our new apartment is roomy enough to accommodate all our furniture.
1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claud Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:The cab, with two side windows, was one of the most roomy and comfortable in the country at that time.
2013 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, New York Times, retrieved 23 December 2013: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.
Translations
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spacious
- Arabic: وَاسِع (wāsiʕ), رَحْب (ar) (raḥb)
- Bashkir: иркен (irken)
- Bulgarian: просторен (bg) (prostoren)
- Catalan: espaiós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 寬敞/宽敞 (zh) (kuānchang), 廣闊/广阔 (zh) (guǎngkuò), 寬廣/宽广 (zh) (kuānguǎng), 寬大/宽大 (zh) (kuāndà), 敞 (zh) (chǎng)
- Dutch: ruim (nl)
- Esperanto: vasta (eo)
- Finnish: tilava (fi), väljä (fi)
- French: spacieux (fr), ample (fr), grand (fr), logeable (fr)
- Georgian: ფართე (parte), თავისუფალი (tavisupali)
- German: geräumig (rooms), weit (clothing)
- Gothic: 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐍃 (rums)
- Japanese: 広い (ja) (hiroi), 広々とした (hirobiro to shita), 広々 (hirobiro)
- Latin: capax, laxus, spatiōsus
- Old English: rūm, ġēap
- Persian: راحَت (fa), جادار (fa), گُنجا (fa)
- Plautdietsch: rumich
- Polish: obszerny (pl), przestronny (pl)
- Portuguese: espaçoso (pt) m, amplo (pt) m
- Romanian: spațios (ro), amplu (ro), încăpător (ro)
- Russian: просто́рный (ru) (prostórnyj)
- Sanskrit: विशाल (sa) (viśāla)
- Serbo-Croatian: pròstran (sh)
- Spanish: espacioso (es) m, amplio (es) m, desahogado (es) m
- Swedish: rymlig (sv)
- Ukrainian: просто́рий (prostóryj)
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roomy (plural roomies)
- Alternative spelling of roomie
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