voluminous

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vəˈl(j)uː.mɪ.nəs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vəˈlu.mə.nəs/

Adjective

voluminous (comparative more voluminous, superlative most voluminous)

1. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
2. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
3. Of great volume, or bulk; large.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     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 […]

4. Having written much, or produced many volumes

   Synonyms: copious, diffuse

   a voluminous writer