Copious: meaning, example and synonyms
Copiousadj. Abundant in supply or quantity; plentiful.
Example
The naturalist kept copious notes on every species she encountered, filling forty notebooks during a single season in the rain forest.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Synonyms
- abundant, plentiful, ample, profuse
- Antonyms
- scarce, meager, sparse, scant
- Memory tip
- Copious ~ cornucopia: overflowing with plenty.
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Check yourself: Copious in context
The archive holds ______ records from the colonial era, including thousands of letters, ship manifests, and tax rolls that historians have barely begun to examine.
Answer: copious. Thousands of documents are plentiful, so copious fits. insolent (rudely disrespectful), bellicose (eager to fight) and extemporaneous (improvised) don't fit this context.
After a season of ______ rainfall, the once-dry riverbed overflowed, and farmers who had worried about drought now worried about their flooded fields.
Answer: copious. Rain heavy enough to flood fields is abundant, so copious fits. abstruse (hard to understand), insolent (rudely disrespectful) and reminiscent (suggestive of something else) don't fit this context.