What is the difference between copious and abundant?
copious | abundant |
Great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3. § 18.
Having an abundant supply.
Full of thought, information, or matter; exuberant in words, expression, or style.
Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
* [W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation. — Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination
Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
* Abundant in goodness and truth. — Exodus, 34:6
(mathematics) Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
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Abundant is a synonym of copious.
As adjectives the difference between copious and abundant
is that copious is great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale while abundant is fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.copious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These loose hints I have thrown together, in order to excite the curiosity of philosophers, and beget a suspicion at least, if not a full persuasion, that this subject is very copious ,
