voluminous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: vo=lu=mi=nous

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]
"Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen."  [1913 Webster]

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.

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, widespread

ROGET THESAURUS

voluminous

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.