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COPIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copiously mean? 

COPIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb COPIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an abundant mannerplay

  Familiarity information: COPIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COPIOUSLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In an abundant manner

Synonyms:

abundantly; copiously; extravagantly; profusely

Context example:

he thanked her profusely

Pertainym:

copious (large in number or quantity (especially of discourse))


 Context examples 


Hand in hand with reading, he had developed the habit of making notes, and so copiously did he make them that there would have been no existence for him in the confined quarters had he not rigged several clothes-lines across the room on which the notes were hung.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Meg had an extra row of little curlpapers across her forehead, Jo had copiously anointed her afflicted face with cold cream, Beth had taken Joanna to bed with her to atone for the approaching separation, and Amy had capped the climax by putting a clothespin on her nose to uplift the offending feature.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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