voluminous — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.

2. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.

   Examples

   I remember that the Baroness was clad in a voluminous silk dress, pale grey in colour, and adorned with flounces and a crinoline and train.

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   Like the Cuscus of the Moluccas, the Galeopithecus feeds chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means.

3. Of great volume, or bulk; large.

   Synonyms

   capacious

   Examples

   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 […]

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   Lukács's voluminous works are devoted for the most part to questions of aesthetics and literary criticism; but it would be wrong to say that he was a critic first and foremost and a philosopher only in a lesser degree.

4. Having written much, or produced many volumes.

   Synonyms

   copiousdiffuse

   Examples

   a voluminous writer

Adjective

1. large in volume or bulk

   Examples

   a voluminous skirt

2. marked by repeated turns and bends

   Synonyms

   tortuoustwistingtwistywinding

   Examples

   a tortuous road up the mountain

   winding roads are full of surprises

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   had to steer the car down a twisty track

3. large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)

   Synonyms

   copious

   Examples

   she took copious notes

   a subject of voluminous legislation