Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having great volume or size.
- adjective Filling or capable of filling a large volume or many volumes.
- adjective Speaking or writing in great amounts or at great length.
- adjective Archaic Having many coils; winding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of coils or convolutions.
- Of great volume or bulk; large; swelling: literally or figuratively.
- Having written much; producing many or bulky books; also, copious; diffuse; prolix: as, a voluminous writer.
- Being in many volumes; hence, copious enough to make numerous volumes: used of the published writings of an author: as, the voluminous works of Sir Walter Scott.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
- adjective Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
- adjective Of great volume, or bulk; large.
- adjective Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
- adjective Consisting of many folds, coils, or
convolutions . - adjective Of great volume, or bulk; large.
- adjective Having written much, or produced many volumes;
copious ;diffuse ; as, a voluminous writer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective large in volume or bulk
- adjective large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)
- adjective marked by repeated turns and bends
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These were the ones whose jeans looked uncomfortably snug, whose faces had a moonish quality that didn't quite seem accustomed, who cloaked themselves in voluminous hoodies.
Your college kid, plus 15 Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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Irresponsible headlines, especially in voluminous journals where few have time to read all the letterpress, are very dangerous.
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People in a democracy have a right to criticize their government and the freer the country the more voluminous is the criticism.
Food 1946
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Up the hilly road, as though ascending from the depths of the valley, came figures of old men with gnarled sticks hanging from their wrists by leather straps, and women whose heads wrapped in voluminous kerchiefs looked too large for their small bodies.
The Mother 1928
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The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats.
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The Cape papers contain voluminous accounts of the cruiser
The Cape Papers 1865
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The heaving is one of the mass beneath, and comes in voluminous rolls as of hills in motion; on the surface of these are the waves, that, far as the eye can reach, take a sharp, angular, spiral form, till the whole resembles an army of spear-heads in motion.
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Most foreign businessmen in China recall voluminous quantities of baijiu and the burning throat, if little else, afterward.
Taste Test Ron Gluckman 2009
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Because of translation issues and the international nature of this alleged plot and what prosecutors are calling voluminous discovery, the judge designated the case complex waiving speedy trial deadlines.
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QUESTION: Ari, Iraq will have its say of sorts on Saturday when they release what has been described as a voluminous document.
Logophile77 commented on the word voluminous
Synonym: volumptuous. It is NOT a misspelling of voluptuous.
December 14, 2017