Definitions for voluminous

voluminous vo·lu·mi·nous

Spelling: [vuh-loo-muh-nuh s]
IPA: /vəˈlu mə nəs/

Voluminous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in voluminous (ilmnoosuuv).

Definitions for voluminous

adjective

  1. forming, filling, or writing a large volume or many volumes:
  2. sufficient to fill a volume or volumes:
  3. of great volume, size, or extent:
  4. of ample size, extent, or fullness:
  5. having many coils, convolutions, or windings.

Origin of voluminous

1605-15; Late Latin volūminōsus full of folds, equivalent to Latin volūmin- (stem of volūmen) volume + -ōsus -ous

Examples for voluminous

Consider one bold, green dress with a voluminous skirt that shimmered with what looked like the green scales of an alligator.

There followed a voluminous screed of irrelevant dissertation.

His papers are voluminous but arid, nothing of the man comes through.

He furnished me with several letters, and with voluminous suggestions and advice.

He was a voluminous author, having written some sixty tracts and books.

In all his voluminous writings a mean sentiment is not to be found.

Eventually I got to see the voluminous police dossier on the case, including the photographs taken at the scene by the paparazzi.

But the biographical inattention to his voluminous body of written work nonetheless has been a strange oversight.

From Burgoyne's voluminous correspondence we learn his state of mind.

The singer covered parts of her naked body with moss, accessorizing with smokey eyeshadow and a voluminous haircut.

Word Value for voluminous
Scrable

15

Words with friends

21

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