commodious

Etymology

From Middle English commodious (“convenient, advantageous”), from Anglo-Norman commodious, Old French commodieux, directly from Medieval Latin commodiosus (“convenient, useful”), irregularly from Latin commodus (“suitable, fit, convenient”), from com- + modus (“measure, manner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). Analyzable as commode (“(archaic or obsolete) To provide with an appropriate or necessary thing; to suit”) + -ious.

adj

1. Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.
   Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.
2. (archaic) Convenient, serviceable, suitable.
3. (now rare) Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.
   A little after Zeluco came of age, the aunt fixed her eyes on him as a commodious match for her niece. 1789, John Moore, chapter III, in Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domeſtic, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 19
   Those who did not accept them became outcasts, or at least ran the risk of suffering such disagreeable consequences as to make acceptance of the ruling of public opinion the most commodious course to an ordinary mind. 1919, Henry de Man, “Why Men Fought”, in The Remaking of a Mind: A Soldier's Thoughts on War and Reconstruction, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 163
4. (now rare) Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.
   My Life (ſays Horace) ſpeaking to one of theſe Magnifico's) is a great deal more eaſie and commodious than thine, in that I can go into the Market and cheapen what I pleaſe without being wonder'd at; […] 1710, Abraham Cowley, “Several Diſcourſes by way of Eſſays, In Verſe and Proſe”, in The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: […], 11th edition, volume the Second, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson; […], →OCLC, page 681
   The aim of government is peace, security and a commodious way of life, and if it attempts to impose upon a people by sheer force laws which they disapprove, resent and resist, they will not cooperate to provide it with the power it needs to enforce those laws and so far it will lose its right. 1973, Errol E. Harris, “The State and Politics”, in Salvation from Despair, A Reapraisal of Spinoza's Philosophy, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, page 193
5. (obsolete) Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.
   The dame's a most commodious quean, / A gypsy born, and go-hetween ! 1880 [1808], Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Thomas Ebenezer Webb, Faust, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., London: Longmans, Green, & Co., →OCLC, [Act III, scene xi], page 190