Dictionary Definition
copious adj
1 large in number or quantity (especially of
discourse); "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage";
"a subject of voluminous legislation" [syn: extensive, voluminous]
2 affording an abundant supply; "had ample food
for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a
plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" [syn: ample, plenteous, plentiful, rich]
User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
- Great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.
Section 3. § 18.
- These loose hints I have thrown together, in order to excite the curiosity of philosophers, and beget a suspicion at least, if not a full persuasion, that this subject is very copious,
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.
Section 3. § 18.
- Having an abundant supply.
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Translations
great in quantity
- Portuguese: abundante
having an abundant supply
- Portuguese: farto
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing,
ample, aplenty, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, bursting, bursting out,
capacious, comprehensive, countless, creative, diffuse, diffusive, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exhaustless, expansive, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, galore, generous, gushing, gushy, in plenty, in quantity,
inexhaustible,
lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, spacious, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous, voluminous, wealthy, well-found,
well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide