Voluminous

Definition: Voluminous

Voluminous

Adjective

1. Large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt".

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

Etymology: Voluminous \Vo*lu"mi*nous\, adjective. [Latin expression voluminosus: compare to the French expression volumineux.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Size	Adjective: large, big; great; (in quantity); considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Voluminous

English words defined with "voluminous": deepness ♦ Pharaoh's serpent. (references)

Specialty definitions using "voluminous": earthworm cast ♦ Stepney Papers ♦ trial. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Great American Sports Book: A Casual but Voluminous Look at American Spectator Sports from the Civil War to the Present Time (reference) John Stanislaus Joyce Voluminous Life An (reference) Joyful Learning: Quick Activities to Build a Very Voluminous Vocabulary (Grades 4-8) (reference) Quick Activities to Build a Very Voluminous Vocabulary (Grades 4-8) (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Christian Nevell Bovee	A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The excess genetic material of the Fragile X defect is so voluminous and so fragile that inserting the Fragile X DNA into animal cells has been a problem for laboratory scientists. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction.
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"Voluminous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Voluminous" is used about 141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	141	26,682

Expressions using "voluminous": voluminous voice ♦ voluminous work. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "voluminous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		voluminoz, i vëllimshëm (capacious), i madh (bally, big, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, massive, mighty, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, whacking, whaling). (various references)

Arabic		‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, whacking, whopping), ‏وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flush, galore, generous, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, rich, rife, riotous, ripe), ‏غزير (abundant, bumper, copious, exuberant, flush, hard, massive, opulent, overmanned, plenteous, plenty, profluent, profuse, rampant, redundant, superabundant, torrential), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Bulgarian		широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, wide), обширен (ample, broad, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far flung, generic, large, large scale, rangy, spacious, vast, vasty, wide), обемист (bulky, capacious, gross, large, massive), многотомен, плодовит (copious, exuberant, fecund, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, productive, prolific, reproductive). (various references)

Chinese		长篇. (various references)

Czech		obsáhlý (all-embracing, comprehensive, expansive), objemový (volumetric), objemný (bulky), bujný (abundant, ample, coltish, Corky, exuberant, high-spirited, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, thick, wanton), bohatý (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, extensive, exuberant, generous, lavish, moneyed, opulent, plentiful, prostate, rich, rife, wealthy, well off). (various references)

Farsi		مفصل (Ample, Copious, Copula, Hinge, Joint, Juncture, Spacious), متراکم (Aggregate, Compact, Cumulous, Dense), حجیم (Large, Massive), جسیم (Bodied, Bulky, Corpulent), انبوه (Aggregate, Bike, Clump, Collective, Congeries, Dense, Gross, Heap, Luxuriant, Rank, Riffraff, Thick), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast). (various references)

Finnish		tilaa vievä, ottava (bulky). (various references)

French		volumineux. (various references)

German		umfangreich (broad, bulkily, bulky, copious, elaborate, extensive, fat, free, heavyset, large scale, spacious, substantial, voluminously, wide). (various references)

Greek		πολύγραφοσ (cyclostyle, duplicating machine, duplicator, hectograph, mimeograph, multigraph), πολύτομοσ, ογκώδησ (bulky, hulking, hulky, massive, massy). (various references)

Hebrew		רב ממ�"ים (multidimensional). (various references)

Hungarian		terjedelmes (ample, big, broad, bulky, expanded, expansive, extensive, great, large, sizable, spacious), sokkötetes. (various references)

Italian		voluminoso (awkward, awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, bulky, cumbersome, heavyset, unwieldy), fecondo (fecund, fertile, fruitful, prolific). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		量感 (bulky, massive), 浩瀚 (bulky), �"�" (flowing, swift). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うか�" (around town, barter, bulky, clearing, corona, exchange, exchange of cordialities, exchange of courtesies, facing the winter, favourable impression, fine fellow, fraternization, future problems, future trouble, good feeling, good will, high official, interchange, mutual sympathy, official residence, on the street, publication, rapport, reciprocity, steel pipe, substitution, the public, the world), りょうか�" (bulky, consort ship, feelings of coolness, massive, office-seeking), とうとう (after all, and so on, at last, calm, clashing of swords, felling of trees, finally, flowing, reaching a head, ringing of an ax, swift, vast). (various references)

Korean		방대한. (various references)

Manx		ym-lioaragh (cyclopaedic, cyclopaedist), thummidagh (bulky, lumbersome, thick, thick bulky). (various references)

Pig Latin		oluminousvay

Portuguese		volumoso (big, bulky, chuckle, corpulent, cumbersome, fat, large, lumping, thick, unwieldy), muito grande (deuced, extra pay, slapping, thumping, very big, whacking, whopping), longo (length, lengthy, long, time-consuming), extenso (ample, broad, bulky, comprehensive, expansivity, extensive, far flung, farrier, flyaway, large, long, slip on, spacious, sweeping, vast, wide), com muitos volumes. (various references)

Romanian		voluminos (big, bulky, capacious, extensive, gross, man-sized, massive, spacious, stodgy), prolific (copious, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, prolific), masiv (big, bulky, burly, fat, full, heap, heavy, massif, massive, massively, massy, portly, rugged, solid, stout, substantial, unwieldy, wholesale), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, wide), gros (abundantly, big, blubber, bulk, bulky, coarse, compact, densely, gross, highly, podgy, quod, stiff, stout, thick), fecund (fecund, prolific, rich). (various references)

Russian		объемистый (bulky, gross), многотомный (multiple volume, multivolume). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		voluminozan, opsežan, obiman (ample, capacious, comprehensive, extensive, large, massive, massy, spacious). (various references)

Spanish		voluminoso (bulky, cumbersome, heavyset, large, unwieldy). (various references)

Swedish		volumiös. (various references)

Turkish		kat kat olan, hacimli, güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, keen, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, virile), cilt cilt olan, çok kitap yazan, çok ciltli, çok büyük (a whale of, fab, fantastic, fantastical, howling, hyper-, sovereign, spanking, stratospheric, thumping, tremendous, vast, very big, whopping). (various references)

Turkmen		gцwrьmli (sizable). (various references)

Ukranian		тривалий (continued, continuous, extended, lasting, lingering, livelong, long, long term, protracted, slow, spacious, sustained, yearlong), багатотомний, плодовитий (philoprogenitive, prolific). (various references)

Vietnamese		to (beamy, big, heavy, loud, sizable, sizeable, swingeing, vastly), cuộn th� nh lớp. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "voluminous": voluminously, voluminousness, voluminousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Voluminous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: valuminous, volumious, volumnia, volumnous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "voluminous" (pronounced vuluw"munus)
7	-l uw" m u n u s	luminous.
6	-uw" m u n u s	bituminous.
5	-m u n u s	ominous.
4	-u n u s	androgynous, asynchronous, chitinous, Deaconess, exogenous, gelatinous, genuineness, gluttonous, homogenous, indigenous, larcenous, membranous, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, nitrogenous, nonpoisonous, outspokenness, poisonous, polygynous, ravenous, ruinous, tetanus, villainous.
3	-n u s	abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gentleness, genus, ghastliness, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, madness, Manus, meanness, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nonbusiness, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, politeness, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, vindictiveness, vividness, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-l-m-n-o-o-s-u-u-v"
	-2 letters: luminous.
	-3 letters: moulins, ominous.
	-4 letters: insoul, linums, moulin, muslin, simoon, solion, vinous.
	-5 letters: limns, limos, linos, linum, lions, loins, looms, loons, louis, milos, minus, moils, monos, mools, moons, munis, muons, noils, nolos, nomoi, nomos, olios, onium, osmol, ovoli, snool, solon, solum, vinos, viols.
	Words containing the letters "i-l-m-n-o-o-s-u-u-v"
	+2 letters: voluminously.
	+4 letters: voluminousness.
	+5 letters: circumvolutions.
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