The Collaborative International Dictionary
Voluminous \Vo*lu"mi*nous\, a. [L. voluminosus: cf. F. volumineux.] Of or pertaining to volume or volumes. Specifically:
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Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast.
--Milton.Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen.
--De Quincey. Of great volume, or bulk; large.
--B. Jonson.Consisting of many volumes or books; as, the collections of Muratori are voluminous.
Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer. [1913 Webster] -- Vo*lu"mi*nous*ly, adv. -- Vo*lu"mi*nous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a voluminous manner.
Usage examples of "voluminously".
Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage--clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots--we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths.
She not only wrote voluminously herself--the name Nesta Ford Pett is familiar to all lovers of sensational fiction--but aimed at maintaining a salon.
She not only wrote voluminously herselfthe name Nesta Ford Pett is familiar to all lovers of sensational fictionbut aimed at maintaining a salon.
Sally Carrol sighed voluminously and raised herself with profound inertia from the floor where she had been occupied in alternately destroyed parts of a green apple and painting paper dolls for her younger sister.
The only reason that Silverberg does not challenge Poul Anderson's status as science fiction's most prolific writer is because so much of Silverberg's output has been in other arenas-he has written voluminously in the fields of popular science, history and biography, and has produced a series of distinguished books about archaeology.