[ US /vəˈɫumənəs/ ]
[ UK /vəlˈuːmɪnəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. large in volume or bulk
    a voluminous skirt
  2. marked by repeated turns and bends
    a tortuous road up the mountain
    had to steer the car down a twisty track
    winding roads are full of surprises
  3. large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)
    a subject of voluminous legislation
    she took copious notes
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How To Use voluminous In A Sentence

  • But if you want voluminous leaf production during summer, you may want to fertigate it occasionally. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
  • Hospital case notes are more voluminous than traditional British general practice paper records, which are normally maintained on small cards, named after the politician who introduced them more than 90 years ago.
  • The gallery is approached across a voluminous, rather airport-like atrium that also houses the company's canteen.
  • The lightweight fabric makes this voluminous new shape more flattering. Times, Sunday Times
  • These were the ones whose jeans looked uncomfortably snug, whose faces had a moonish quality that didn't quite seem accustomed, who cloaked themselves in voluminous hoodies. Your college kid, plus 15
  • If you are wearing a voluminous shape on your bottom half, keep the top half neat. The Sun
  • He wore a kind of paletôt of light camlet cloth, with voluminous lapels and deep cuffs of lavender watered silk; very baggy trousers, with lavender stripes down the seams; very shiny boots and quite as glossy a hat; his attire being completed by tightly-fitting gloves, of the hue known in Paris as beurre frais — that is to say, light yellow. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
  • Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give. Latin Literature
  • That key person needs to listen intently, take voluminous notes, and collect all class handouts, texts, and tests.
  • The sound reproduction is quite good, too, in spite of some odd balances: certain brass instruments are pushed back too far, while the clarinet and other less voluminous instruments are well up front.
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