voluminous
pronunciation
How to pronounce voluminous in British English:
UK [vəˈlu:mɪnəs]
How to pronounce voluminous in American English:
US [vəˈlumənəs]
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- Adjective:
- large in volume or bulk
- large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)
Word Origin
- voluminous (adj.)
- 1610s, "forming a large mass," also "full of turnings and windings," from Late Latin voluminosus, from Latin volumen (genitive voluminis) "volume" (see volume). Related: Voluminously; voluminousness.
Example
- 1. But why collect such voluminous amounts of location data anyway ?
- 2. She saw matthew 's experience in a far different light , as her spokeswoman , jenny sedlis , explained in two voluminous e-mails totaling 5701 words .
- 3. It is easy to forget that a human being stands behind those voluminous and forbidding books , and the even more forbidding system of thought those books express .
- 4. Many firms have voluminous cash reserves .
- 5. In a series of online opinion-surveys and in voluminous press commentary , debate has been surprisingly intense .