voluminously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a voluminous manner.
Example Sentences
- "She wrote constantly and voluminously, usually destroying her work from month to month, so that but few of her earlier verses are extant. She also read widely, her taste inclining to the early English poets and dramatists and to mediæval literature."
- "At the pronounced words and the spontaneous echo that voluminously rebounded them, Captain Vere, either thro' stoic self-control or a sort of momentary paralysis induced by emotional shock, stood erectly rigid as a musket in the ship-armorer's rack."
- "He was rather shabbily dressed; though he had evidently made the most of a rusty black coat, and wore his shirt-frill plaited and puffed out voluminously at the bosom."
Etymology
Etymology tree English voluminous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English voluminously From voluminous + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more voluminously (comparative)
most voluminously (superlative)