Voluminous means very large and loose, or very long in writing. Voluminous skirts, voluminous notes, a voluminous correspondence.
Of clothing it praises the fall of fabric and of writing it hints at too much. It comes from volume, which meant a roll of parchment before it meant a book or a quantity — and the Latin volvere, to roll, is behind all three.
1adjectivevoluminousVery large and loose, or very long in writing.
“She wore a voluminous skirt that swirled around her as she danced.”
voluminous is a quality of size.
Latin voluminosus comes from volumen, a roll of writing, from volvere, to roll. Volume and revolve share the rolling.
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From Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volvō + men. Related to volume.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA