roomy

English

Etymology

From room +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːmi/, /ˈɹʊmi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːmi, -ʊmi

Adjective

roomy (comparative roomier, superlative roomiest)

1. 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

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)

Noun

roomy (plural roomies)

1. Alternative spelling of roomie

Anagrams

• moory