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voluminous

[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.

    Synonyms: , ,
  4. of ample size, extent, or fullness.

    voluminous petticoats.

  5. having many coils, convolutions, or windings.



voluminous

/ vəˌluËmɪˈnÉ’sɪtɪ, vəˈluËmɪnÉ™s /

adjective

  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. obsoleteÌýwinding

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • voluminously adverb
  • voluminousness noun
  • voluminosity noun
  • hypervoluminous adjective
  • hypervoluminously adverb
  • hypervoluminousness noun
  • supervoluminous adjective
  • supervoluminously adverb
  • unvoluminous adjective
  • unvoluminously adverb
  • unvoluminousness noun
  • ±¹´Çˈ±ô³Ü³¾¾±²Ô´Ç³Ü²õ±ô²â adverb
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of voluminous1

1605–15; < Late Latin ±¹´Ç±ôÅ«³¾¾±²ÔŲõ³Ü²õ full of folds, equivalent to Latin ±¹´Ç±ôÅ«³¾¾±²Ô- (stem of ±¹´Ç±ôÅ«³¾±ð²Ô ) volume + -Ųõ³Ü²õ -ous
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of voluminous1

C17: from Late Latin ±¹´Ç±ôÅ«³¾¾±²ÔŲõ³Ü²õ full of windings, from ±¹´Ç±ôÅ«³¾±ð²Ô volume
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This year’s big Cannes fashion headline is that women are no longer allowed to wear “voluminous†frocks on the steps.

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Hoffman has done a marvelous job of reading through Aimee’s voluminous, florid writings and creating a narrative that works for the modern ear.

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Similarly, the Becket lawyer insisted that another book tells kids their gender "changes based on the weather," but provides no evidence in the voluminous court filings.

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He’s called himself a “hoarder,†and that seems to include his own voluminous quantity of work.

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That unreliability mirrors, whether intentionally or not, that of one of his principal sources: the voluminous, virtually unreadable memoir that his great-grandfather composed.

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