voluminous
adjective /vəˈluːmɪnəs/
/vəˈluːmɪnəs/
(formal)- (of clothing) very large; having a lot of cloth synonym ample
- a voluminous skirt
- (of a piece of writing, a book, etc.) very long and detailed
- There is voluminous literature on modernism and post-modernism.
- (of a container, piece of furniture, etc.) very large
- I sank down into a voluminous armchair.
- From one of his voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of whisky.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: partly from late Latin voluminosus ‘having many coils’, partly from Latin volumen, volumin- ‘a roll’, from volvere ‘to roll’.