COPIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copious mean? 

• COPIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective COPIOUS has 2 senses:

1. large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)

2. affording an abundant supply

  Familiarity information: COPIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)

Synonyms:

copious; voluminous

Context example:

a subject of voluminous legislation

Similar:

abundant (present in great quantity)

Derivation:

copiousness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Affording an abundant supply

Synonyms:

ample; copious; plenteous; plentiful; rich

Context example:

a rich supply

Similar:

abundant (present in great quantity)

Derivation:

copiousness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

 Context examples 

It also contains copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere.

(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)

Arp 299 also emits copious amounts of infrared light that has been detected by observatories such as NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, but those data are not included in this composite.

(Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash, NASA)

Another modern book he found treated poetry as a representative art, treated it exhaustively, with copious illustrations from the best in literature.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Fleshy algae on reefs release copious amounts of nutrients known as dissolved organic carbon, which microbes eat.

(Too much algae and too many microbes threaten coral reefs, NSF)

As a typical star moves further along into adulthood, it loses some zip due to the copious emission of charged particles known as a stellar wind (in our solar system, we call this the solar wind).

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole negative, utilizes acetate, hydrolyzes esculin, ferments fructose, starch, and inulin, but not arabinose, melibiose, raffinose, rhamnose, ribose or xylose, does not produce hydrogen or reduce nitrate, but does produce copious amounts of butyrate.

(Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, NCI Thesaurus)

I answered, “it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been often apt to amuse myself with visions of what I should do, if I were a king, a general, or a great lord: and upon this very case, I had frequently run over the whole system how I should employ myself, and pass the time, if I were sure to live for ever.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We stayed long enough at the police-station to learn that a search of his clothing revealed nothing save a few shillings and a long sheath knife, the handle of which bore copious traces of recent blood.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And that Charles’s sister’s tale-bearing tongue should be relevant to the building of a Yukon fire, was apparent only to Mercedes, who disburdened herself of copious opinions upon that topic, and incidentally upon a few other traits unpleasantly peculiar to her husband’s family.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But I confess, that, after I had been a little too copious in talking of my own beloved country, of our trade and wars by sea and land, of our schisms in religion, and parties in the state; the prejudices of his education prevailed so far, that he could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I was a whig or tory?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)