copious

KOH-pee-usadj

Meaning plentiful; in large amounts

Memory hook COPY-ous: he COPIES down everything. Sami copies down every word the guide says, page after page after page. His notes are copious.

Sami took copious notes on the museum tour, filling half his notebook.

In context The garden needed little watering that year, thanks to copious rain that fell almost every afternoon from April through June.

Similar plentiful, abundant, ample, profuse

Opposite scant, meager, sparse

From Latin copiosus, from copia, “plenty,” as in cornucopia, the horn of plenty.

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