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

  Copious \Co"pi*ous\, 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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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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