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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Copious \Co"pi*ous\, adjective [L. copiosus, fr. copia abundance: cf. F. copieux. See {Copy}, {Opulent}.] Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
Kindly pours its copious treasures forth. --Thomson.
Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. --Milton.
Syn: Ample; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; rich; full; exuberant; overflowing; full. See {Ample}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
copious
adjective
1: large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage"; "a subject of voluminous legislation" [syn: {extensive}, {voluminous}]
2: affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" [syn: {ample}, {plenteous}, {plentiful}, {rich}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "copious": abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, bursting, bursting out, capacious, comprehensive, countless, creative, diffuse, diffusive, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exhaustless, expansive, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, galore, generous, gushing, gushy, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, spacious, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous, voluminous, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide
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