voluminous
/vəˈlu.mə.nəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
adj
Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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 […]"
- "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."
- "a voluminous writer"
Etymology
From Late Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Related to volume.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: volvō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /vəˈlu.mə.nəs/
- British English: /vəˈl(j)uː.mɪ.nəs/
Inflected Forms
more voluminous (comparative)
most voluminous (superlative)
Derived Forms
Frequently Paired Words
volumous