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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective voluminous has 3 senses
- voluminous(s = adj.all) Array - large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt" Derived forms noun volume2, noun volume1, noun voluminosity1, noun voluminousness1
- voluminous(s = adj.all) tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding - marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"
- voluminous(s = adj.all) copious - large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "a subject of voluminous legislation" Derived forms noun voluminosity1, noun voluminousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
voluminous, a. [L. voluminosus: cf. F. volumineux.].
Of or pertaining to volume or volumes. [1913 Webster]
"But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
Voluminous and vast." [1913 Webster]
Voluminous and vast." [1913 Webster]
"Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
voluminous, adj.
1 large in volume; bulky.
2 (of drapery etc.) loose and ample.
3 consisting of many volumes.
4 (of a writer) producing many books.
1 large in volume; bulky.
2 (of drapery etc.) loose and ample.
3 consisting of many volumes.
4 (of a writer) producing many books.
Derivative
voluminosity n. voluminously adv. voluminousness n.
Etymology
LL voluminosus (as VOLUME)
THESAURUS
voluminous
Gargantuan, ample, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, big, billowing, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious, cavernous, colossal, commodious, comprehensive, copious, cosmic, deep, enormous, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-reaching, galactic, generous, gigantic, great, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, king-size, large, legion, loose, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, outsize, overgrown, oversized, populous, prodigious, roomy, several, sizable, spacious, spreading, stupendous, substantial, sundry, titanic, tremendous, various, vast, weighty, wide, widespreadROGET THESAURUS
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Size
N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.
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