Copious

Definition: Copious

Copious

Adjective

1. Large in number or quantity; "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage".

2. Affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "copious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Copious \Co"pi*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression copiosus, from copia abundance: compare to the French expression copieux. See Copy, Opulent.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Copious

Diffuseness

Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.

Sufficiency

Full.; (complete); ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding; Verb: replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish; wholesale.

Crosswords: Copious

Books

• A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictinary (Wpc Classics) (reference)

• A manual of classical bibliography: comprising a copious detail of the various editions of the Greek and Latin classics, and of the critical and philological works published in illustration of them, with an account of the principal translations, into Engl (reference)

• Copious Hosting: A Theology of Access for People With Disabilities (reference)

• Funk and Wagnalls Modern Guide to Synonyms and Related Words; Lists of Antonyms, Copious Cross-References: A Complete and Legible Index (reference)

• Nahuatl As Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, With Copious Examples and Texts (Nahuatl Series, No. 6.) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easychair beside the bed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It also contains copious links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles and sequence information. (references)

Chest percussion or lightly clapping the chest and back, may help dislodge tenacious or copious secretions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "copious": copious free time. Additional references.

Albanian

me shumicë (wholesale), me bollëk (amply, profusely, to one's heart's content). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير (abundant, ample, bags of, considerable, lots of, many, much, numerous, overblown, plentiful), ‏وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, exuberant, flush, galore, generous, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, rich, rife, riotous, ripe, voluminous), ‏غزير الإنتاج (productive), ‏غزير (abundant, bumper, exuberant, flush, hard, massive, opulent, overmanned, plenteous, plenty, profluent, profuse, rampant, redundant, superabundant, torrential, voluminous), ‏زاخر (full, generous, teeming). (various references)

Bulgarian 

многословен (circumlocutory, diffuse, diffusive, exuberant, lengthy, long winded, prolix, redundant, verbose, wordy), богат на мисли, плодовит (exuberant, fecund, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, productive, prolific, reproductive, voluminous), изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, exuberant, fat, flush, free, good, hefty, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, rank, redundant, rich, substantial, thick, unstinted, wealthy). (various references)

Chinese 

瀌 , 沛 (abundant), 丰富 (Abundant, Affluence, Enrich, Enriched, Enriching, Opulent, Plentiful). (various references)

Czech

plodný (fertile, fruitful, pregnant, procreative, productive, prolific, rich), obsažný (comprehensive, pithy), hojný (abundant, ample, effusive, full, generous, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, superfluous), bohatý (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, extensive, exuberant, generous, lavish, moneyed, opulent, plentiful, prostate, rich, rife, voluminous, wealthy, well off). (various references)

Danish

rigelig (broad, wide), massiv (massive). (various references)

Dutch

copieus (abundant, plentiful), welig (abundant, plentiful, profuse), weelderig (abundant, de luxe, deluxe, luxurious, plentiful, profuse), volop (abundant, abundantly, plentiful, profuse), uitbundig (abundant, enthusiastic, plentiful, profuse), rijkelijk (abundantly), rýk (abundant, affluent, empire, plentiful, profuse, realm, rich, state, wealthy, well-off), overvloedig (abundant, plentiful, profuse), abundant (abundant, plentiful, profuse). (various references)

Faeroese

ríviligur (abundant, plentiful, profuse). (various references)

Farsi 

فراوان (Abundant, Affluent, Ample, Bounteous, Exuberant, Galore, Plenty, Profuse, Prolific, Rampant, Rife, Superabundant, Unsparing, Very), مفصل (Ample, Copula, Hinge, Joint, Juncture, Spacious, Voluminous), زیاد (Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), خیلی (Damn, Extra, Far, Jolly, Many, So, Ten, Very). (various references)

Finnish

runsas (abundant, ample, large, plentiful, profuse). (various references)

French

copieux, abondant. (various references)

German

reichlich (abound, abundant, abundantly, ample, amply, bountiful, bountifully, fatly, full, generous, large, lavishly, liberal, numerous, opulent, overabundant, plenteous, plentiful, plentifully, plenty, profuse, profusely, richly, substantial, thick). (various references)

Greek 

συμπαγής (compact, solid), πυκνός (dense, thick), άφθονοσ (abundant, affluent, flush, galore, luxuriant, plenteous, profuse, profusive). (various references)

Hebrew 

שופע (abounding, abundant, bounteous, bountiful, fertile, flush, opulent, plentiful, profuse, rich, superabundant, superfluous), בשפע (galore). (various references)

Hungarian

kiadós (abundant, fat, full, full-blood, substantial), bõséges (abundant, ample, bountiful, lavish, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, superabundant), bôvelkedô (abundant, plentiful, profuse), bôséges (abundant, plentiful, profuse). (various references)

Icelandic

ríkulegur (abundant, plentiful, profuse), kappnógur (abundant, plentiful, profuse). (various references)

Indonesian

berlebihan (affluent, excessive, intemperance). (various references)

Irish

fuíoch. (various references)

Italian

copioso (abundant, plentiful, profuse), abbondante (abundant, affluent, ample, bumper, flush, free, full, generous, large, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rife). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

滾滾 , 滾々 , 万斛 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ば�"�"く (all countries, all nations, the whole world, universal), �"�"�"�" (dead to the world, fast asleep). (various references)

Korean 

�'�부한 (Abundant, Bounteous, Bountiful, resourceful, Wealthy). (various references)

Manx

palchagh (abundant, affluent, plenteous, well off, well-to-do), lhieenar (abundant, numerous, plentiful). (various references)

Papiamen

abundante (abundant, excessive, inordinate, plentiful, profuse). (various references)

Pig Latin

opiouscay

Portuguese

copioso (abundant, ample, full, generous, large, numerous, plenteous, plentiful, prodigal, profuse, thick), abundante (abundant, abundantly, ample, bounteous, chock-full, flush, frequent, full, generous, large, lumping, numerous, opulent, philoprogenitive, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolific, rich, teeming, thick-set, unsparing, wanton). (various references)

Romanian

copios (generous, plentiful, sumptuous), prolific (fertile, fruitful, pregnant, prolific, voluminous), exuberant (ebullient, effusive, exuberant, gushing, rampant, rumbustious, wanton), des (abundant, dense, densely, frequent, frequently, often, regularly, repeated, repeatedly, rife, thick), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off), abundent (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, exuberant, flush, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profusely, rank, rich). (various references)

Russian 

обильный (abundant, ample, bountiful, exuberant, generous, hearty, heavy, hefty, lavish, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, rich, riotous, torrential, ungrudging). (various references)

Scottish

lìonmhor (plentiful, populous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obilan (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, flush, full, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, torrential, unsparing), govorljiv (communicable, garrulous, long winded, loquacious, talkative, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Spanish

copioso (extensive, plenteous, plentiful, rich). (various references)

Swedish

riklig (abudant, abundant, ample, bountiful, full, generous, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, plenteous, rich, right). (various references)

Thai

ที่ใช้คำพู�"เยิ่นเย้อ, มากมาย (incalculable, jillion, luxurious, numerous, skillion). (various references)

Turkish

bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide). (various references)

Ukrainian

рясний (abundant, ample, exuberant, fertile, lavish, opulent, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolific, rich, torrential), великий (big, bulky, bumping, capital, goodly, great, king size, large, out, vast), багатий (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, moneyed, oof-bird, oofy, opulent, pinguid, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, pursy, redundant, rich, rife, superb, wealthy, well off), пплідний, докладний (ample, circumstantial, detailed, explicit, minute, nice, particular, play-by-play). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phong phú (abounding, abundant, ample, a-plenty, meaty, multifarious, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, productive, rich, richly), hậu hỉ, d�"i d� o (affluent, a-plenty, galore, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, rich, unstinted). (various references)

abundans, abundantem, abundantes, abundanti, abundantia, abundantibus, abundantiorem, abundantiori, abundantissime, abundantium, abundantius, abunde, abundo, affluens, affluentes, beata, beatae, beatam, beati, beatior, beatissimam, beatius, beato, beatos, beatum, beatus, com-, copiosus, fusus, largus, prolixae, prolixior, prolixius, ubere, uberem, uberes, uberi, uberibus, uberrimae, uberrimis, uberrimus, uberum, verbosae, verbosi, verbosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "copious": copiously, copiousness, copiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Copious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capious, Cepilux, copians, copioas, copioous, copiosa, copiosus, copiuous, copius, Coposu, copous, Coprinus, copus, corioos, coupious, cpoious, cupious, Cuspius. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: coops, coups, pious, pisco, scoop.

-3 letters: coop, coos, cops, coup, cups, cusp, oops, opus, pics, piso, poco, pois, scop, scup, soup, spic.

-4 letters: cis, coo, cop, cos, cup, ops, pic, pis, piu, poi, psi, pus, sic, sip, sop, sou, sup, upo, ups.

-5 letters: is, op, os, pi, si, so, up, us.

+2 letters: copiously.

+3 letters: compulsion, couponings, diplodocus, precocious, prosciutto, uroscopies.

+4 letters: compendious, compulsions, conspicuous, consumption, copiousness, copulations, cornucopias, corruptions, cuckoopints, diplococcus, duopolistic, liposuction, lycopodiums, microporous, occupations, outscooping, piscivorous, productions, promiscuous, prosciuttos, prosecution.

+5 letters: coauthorship, complicitous, compulsorily, compunctions, compunctious, computations, consumptions, coprophilous, counterpoise, diplodocuses, discomposure, fluoroscopic, liposuctions, microsporous, mispronounce, mucoproteins, outcroppings, outpoliticks, polystichous, precociously, preconscious, procurations, prosecutions, supercooling.