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voluminous

/vuh-loo-muh-nuhs/US // vəˈlu mə nəs //UK // (vəˈluːmɪnəs) //

浩浩荡荡,浩浩荡荡的,浩繁,浩繁的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : forming, filling, or writing a large volume or many volumes: a voluminous edition.
    • : sufficient to fill a volume or volumes: a voluminous correspondence.
    • : of great volume, size, or extent: voluminous flow of lava.
    • : of ample size, extent, or fullness: voluminous petticoats.
    • : having many coils, convolutions, or windings.

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Examples

  • In my youth, I carried “The Magic Mountain,” Mann’s voluminous 1924 novel, into cafes.

  • There are 79, believe it or not— 79 different files on different members of the Kuczynski family, including a pretty voluminous set on Ursula herself.

  • Star RB Alvin Kamara will also be sure to get his, and there will be other mouths to feed in a New Orleans passing game likely to be less voluminous than it was with Brees.

  • With multiple sizes, this model creates classic, bouncy, and voluminous curls.

  • For this album’s rollout, she has chosen an elegant, muted approach in which she sports voluminous blonde hair, plush fabrics and lies across Persian rugs.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Frederick Spanheim died; a noted divinity professor at Leyden, and a voluminous writer.

  • Nathan Drake, an English physician, died; also a highly respectable and voluminous author.

  • But the man inside these voluminous clothes is even still more eccentric.

  • He was one of the most voluminous writers of antiquity, and probably is the most learned man whose writings have come down to us.

  • His writings were very voluminous, and in his tranquil garden he led a peaceful life of study and enjoyment.