adjective [co-pee-us]

FULL DEFINITION

-yielding something abundantly

-plentiful in number

or

-full of thought, information, or matter

-profuse or  in words, expression, or style

or

-present in large quantity :  taking place on a large scale

SYNONYMS: profuse, galore, gushing, lavish, riotous

ANTONYMS: dribbling, trickling

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Examples:

-This year's Thanksgiving feast offered a copious amount of foods.

-As the sun rose, the villagers found that the blizzard from last evening had unleashed a copious amount of snow on their village.

Did you know?  Copious derives from Latin copia ("abundance"), which in turn combines the prefix co- and ops ("wealth" or "power"). "Copious" and "opulent" (also from "ops"), along with "ample," "plentiful," and "abundant," all mean "more than sufficient."