- very plentiful; abundant
- wordy; profuse or diffuse in language
- full of information
Origin of copious
Middle English from Classical Latin copiosus from copia, abundance from co-, together + ops, riches, power: see opus
Los Angeles has a copious amount of automobiles.
The definition of copious is something of which there is a large amount.
An example of copious is the amount of cars that are in Los Angeles.
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copious
adjective
- Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply: a copious harvest. See Synonyms at plentiful.
- Large in quantity; abundant: copious rainfall.
- Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy: “I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules” ( Samuel Johnson )
Origin of copious
Middle English from Latin cōpiōsus from cōpia abundance ; see op- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- co′pi·ous·ly
adverb
- co′pi·ous·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more copious, superlative most copious)
- Great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.
- Having an abundant supply.
- Full of thought, information, or matter; exuberant in words, expression, or style.
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Sentence Examples
- Jackson wrote copious notes.
- She held up her pad of copious notes.
- For full accounts of the battle, with copious references to authorities and to ancient controversies, mostly arising out of the conduct of Doria, see Sir W.
- Martha had continued to take copious notes on each and every case.
- The rainfall is very unequally distributed: in the western part, which comes near to the limits of the rainless region of Asia, it is very scanty, and scarcely averages more than 5 in.; in the south-west the fall is more copious, sometimes exceeding 100 in.
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