copious
The word “copious” has 3 syllables: co-pi-ous
It's pronounced as /ˈkoʊ.pi.əs/
What is synonym and antonym for copious?
In the thesaurus, “copious” has 51 synonyms and 23 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for copious along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for copious
- a mess of
- abounding
- abundant
- adequate
- alive with
- ample
- aplenty
- bounteous
- bountiful
- coming out of ears
- complete
- crawling with
- enough
- excessive
- extensive
- extravagant
- exuberant
- fat
- fecund
- fertile
- free
- full
- galore
- generous
- gushing
- heavy
- immoderate
- lavish
- liberal
- lush
- luxuriant
- munificent
- no end
- openhanded
- overflowing
- plenteous
- plentiful
- plenty
- profuse
- prolix
- redundant
- replete
- rich
- riotous
- sufficient
- superabundant
- thick with
- unsparing
- unstinting
- verbose
- wordy
Antonyms for copious
- bare
- deficient
- dribbling
- inadequate
- incomplete
- insufficient
- lacking
- meager
- mere
- minimal
- needing
- needy
- poor
- rare
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- spare
- sparse
- stingy
- trickling
- unsatisfactory
- wanting
Meanings of copious
- adjective
- Existing or available in large amounts; abundant or plentiful.
Example Sentences
- The researchers collected copious amounts of data.
- She took copious notes during the lecture.
- The garden produced a copious harvest this year.
- He drank copious amounts of water after exercising.
- The report contains copious details about the project.
On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to copious, such as: a mess of, abounding, abundant, adequate, alive with, ample, aplenty.
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Related Words
hagiographic
- abundant
- adulatory
- artificial
- backhanded
- cloying
- copious
- demonstrative
- disarming
- drooling
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- hypocritical
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- mushy
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- sickening
- slavering
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- soapy
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- unctuous
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- winning
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hagiographical
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- lavish
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- slobbering
- soapy
- two-faced
- unctuous
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jam-packed
- SRO
- a lot of
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- very many
- voluminous
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- weighted
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- wrapped
waffling
- alternating
- ambivalent
- beating about the bush
- beating around the bush
- betwixt and between
- blowing hot and cold
- borderline
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- capricious
- caviling
- cavilling
- changeable
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- circumlocutory
- circumventing
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- copious
- debatable
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- loose
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- mercurial
- misleading statement
- misleading word
- mobile
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- neutral
- not definite
- not sure
- of two minds
- on the fence
- on-the-fence
- open
- open to question
- oscillating
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- payable
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- prolix
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- pussyfooting
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- shaking
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- temperamental
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- unsolved
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- verbose
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- weak
- weak-kneed
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- without guts
- wobbly
- yellow-bellied
- yo-yo
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zillion
- abundance
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- store
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- ton
- total
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- without number
- yard