Copious \Co"pi*ous\, a. [L. copiosus, fr. copia abundance: cf.
F. copieux. See Copy, Opulent.]
Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
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Kindly pours its copious treasures forth. --Thomson.
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Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name
Shall be the copious matter of my song. --Milton.
Syn: Ample; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; rich; full;
exuberant; overflowing; full. See Ample.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "copious":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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