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voluminous

/vəˈl(j)uː.mɪ.nəs/US/vəˈlu.mə.nəs/

voluminous adjective: of or pertaining to volume or volumes.

Adjective

voluminous (comparative more voluminous, superlative most voluminous)

  1. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
  2. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
    • I remember that the Baroness was clad in a voluminous silk dress, pale grey in colour, and adorned with flounces and a crinoline and train.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI)
    • Like the Cuscus of the Moluccas, the Galeopithecus feeds chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 211
  3. Of great volume, or bulk; large.
    • Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • Lukács's voluminous works are devoted for the most part to questions of aesthetics and literary criticism; but it would be wrong to say that he was a critic first and foremost and a philosopher only in a lesser degree.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
    Synonyms:
    capacious
  4. Having written much, or produced many volumes.
    • a voluminous writer
    Synonyms:
    copious, diffuse

voluminous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

voluminous in Tamil

பருமனான அளவு

voluminous in Urdu

حجیم, کثیر, وافر, ضخیم

voluminous in Malayalam

spacious, capacious, roomy
നീളത്തിൽ കിടക്കുന്ന, വളരെ വലുതായ, വ്യാസമുള്ള, വിഷ്കംഭി, വിസ്താരമുള്ള, വിശാല

voluminous in Kannada

ದೊಡ್ಡಗಾತ್ರದ, ಭಾರಿಯಾದ, ಬೃಹದಾಕಾರದ, ಅಗಾಧ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ, ದೊಡ್ಡರಾಶಿಯ, ವಿಪುಲವಾಗಿ ಬರೆದಿರುವ

Examples of voluminous in a sentence

  • Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.
  • Gail stood up, unpinned the wide voluminous overscarf, and proceeded to enlighten me about her head gear.
  • When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism.

All 13 example sentences with voluminous

Synonyms of voluminous

Forms of voluminous

comparativemore voluminous
superlativemost voluminous

Origin of voluminous

From Late Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Related to volume.

Words formed from voluminous

Questions about voluminous

What does voluminous mean?
Voluminous means of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
What is voluminous in Tamil?
Voluminous in Tamil is பருமனான அளவு. See Voluminous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is voluminous?
Voluminous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce voluminous?
Voluminous is pronounced /vəˈl(j)uː.mɪ.nəs/ (UK).

Words near voluminous in the dictionary

  1. volumic
  2. voluminal
  3. voluming
  4. voluminosities
  5. voluminosity
  6. voluminous
  7. voluminously
  8. voluminousness
  9. volumise
  10. volumised
  11. volumiser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: voluminous (page history and authors); voluminous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); voluminous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); voluminous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); voluminous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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