[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

copious \co"pious\, a. l. copiosus, fr. copia abundance: cf.
   f. copieux. see copy, opulent.
   large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
   1913 webster

         kindly pours its copious treasures forth. --thomson.
   1913 webster

         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.
        1913 webster
see also:
copy opulent ample 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

copious
     adj 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
see also:
extensive voluminous ample plenteous plentiful rich 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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