Copious
['kəʊpɪəs] or ['kopɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); 'she took copious notes'; 'a subject of voluminous legislation' .
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Definition
(a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
Typist: Tito
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Abundant, plentiful, plenteous, ample, profuse, rich, full, exuberant, overflowing.
Typist: Xavier
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABUNDANT]
Typist: Molly
Definition
adj. plentiful: overflowing: not concise.—adv. Cō′piously.—n. Cō′piousness.
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Examples
- Ours is a Copious Language, and Trying to Strangers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Tupman did as he was desired; and Mr. Pickwick having refreshed himself with a copious draught of ale, waited his friend's leisure. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The banker's speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The same varieties of the cabbage do not yield abundant and nutritious foliage and a copious supply of oil-bearing seeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He was an industrious student both of mathematics and history, his memory was prodigiously good, and he made copious note-books which still exist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No,' said the girl, with a shake of the head which expressed a more decided negative than the most copious language could have conveyed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They appeared in the form of a copious review of a work on Chinese metaphysics, Sir,' said Pott. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By the time Mac had finished a copious breakfast, most of the others had concluded their meal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As a speaker he was rather copious and lacking in spice of the Clemenceau quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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