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copious

US/ˈkoʊ.pi.əs/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,018 of 15,258leans written

Copious means present in large quantity. Copious notes, copious amounts, copious tears.

It belongs to things that flow or accumulate rather than to countable objects, so copious notes and copious rain are natural and copious chairs is not. The Latin means abundance, and copy comes from the same word.

Definitions of copious

  1. 1adjectivecopiousPresent in large quantity.C1

    “She took copious notes during the lecture, filling ten pages.”

copious is a quantity.

Where it comes from

Latin copiosus comes from copia, abundance; copy is a relative.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₃ep-

  2. Latin

    copiosus

  3. Middle English

    copious

  4. English, today

    copious

Built from

  • copia · Latin — abundance
  • ops · Latin — wealth
  • -osus · Latin — full of

From Middle English copious, from Latin copiosus, from copia (“abundance”), equivalent to co- + ops (“wealth”) + -osus (“full of”). by surface analysis, copy + -ous.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

copious in the wild

  • Sousson-Pannan is a hideously ugly loa, covered in sores, who is known for drinking copious amounts of both liquor and blood in Vodou.

    Sousson-Pannan

  • Stellar radio sources, radio source stars or radio stars are stellar objects that produce copious emissions of various radio frequencies, whether constant or pulsed.

    Radio star

  • NGC 3314a has its spiral arms and copious amounts of dust obscuring the background galaxy NGC 3314b.

    NGC 3314

  • Lady Blomfield's copious notes are the basis of the volume.

    Paris Talks

  • Striking feature of his works is the copious use of white and red paints, as well as the many inscriptions naming his figures.

    Tydeus Painter

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Related words

the -osus family

obliviousegregious

copious — used about once every 18,318 pages · #13,018 · point at the bar for the others

  • copy