vo·lu·mi·nous

[vuh-loo-muh-nuhs]
adjective
1.
forming, filling, or writing a large volume or many volumes: a voluminous edition.
2.
sufficient to fill a volume or volumes: a voluminous correspondence.
3.
of great volume, size, or extent: voluminous flow of lava.
4.
of ample size, extent, or fullness: voluminous petticoats.
5.
having many coils, convolutions, or windings.

Origin:
1605–15; < Late Latin volūminōsus full of folds, equivalent to Latin volūmin- (stem of volūmen) volume + -ōsus -ous

vo·lu·mi·nous·ly, adverb
vo·lu·mi·nous·ness, vo·lu·mi·nos·i·ty [vuh-loo-muh-nos-i-tee] , noun
hy·per·vo·lu·mi·nous, adjective
hy·per·vo·lu·mi·nous·ly, adverb
hy·per·vo·lu·mi·nous·ness, noun
su·per·vo·lu·mi·nous, adjective
su·per·vo·lu·mi·nous·ly, adverb
un·vo·lu·mi·nous, adjective
un·vo·lu·mi·nous·ly, adverb
un·vo·lu·mi·nous·ness, noun

compendious, voluminous.


3. extensive, copious, ample.
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voluminous (vəˈluːmɪnəs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
1.  of great size, quantity, volume, or extent
2.  (of writing) consisting of or sufficient to fill volumes
3.  prolific in writing or speech
4.  obsolete winding
 
[C17: from Late Latin volūminōsus full of windings, from volūmenvolume]
 
voluminosity
 
n
 
vo'luminousness
 
n
 
vo'luminously
 
adv

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Word Origin & History

voluminous
"forming a large mass," 1610s, from L.L. voluminosus, from L. volumen (gen. voluminis) "volume" (see volume). Related: Voluminously.
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Example sentences
It frees office space formerly consumed by voluminous filing cabinets thus
  reducing costs.
Her skirt was of voluminous white, puffed and trimmed in wondrous sort.
But after four decades of intense, voluminous criticism, literature was
  generally exhausted of new scholarly inquiry.
She stepped behind the cardboard voting screen, and opened the voluminous
  ballot paper, carefully scrolling down.
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