🇬🇧🇨🇳 voluminous - 宽松的 : English Lesson

Meaning of "voluminous" ("宽松的"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Voluminous means very big, wide, or puffy, especially when talking about clothes made with a lot of fabric, like a huge skirt or a giant, fluffy coat that takes up lots of space.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Her voluminous wedding dress needed three cousins, one aunt, and a forklift to turn her around for photos.

His voluminous superhero cape looked awesome until it got shut in the car door and dragged like a fancy mop down the street.

I wore such voluminous snow pants that when I fell over, I just bounced and rolled slowly down the hill like a padded meatball.

Our school’s mascot costume is so voluminous that whoever wears it has to go through doors sideways and apologize to the door every time.

Her voluminous skirt was so big that when she sat down, the chair disappeared and we thought she had swallowed it.

At the party, a girl in a voluminous dress bumped the door and laughed. Her voluminous skirt swept the floor; her voluminous sleeves brushed a lamp. Guests stepped back to see the voluminous folds. She spun, the voluminous fabric flared, everyone smiled, and she bowed, happy the dress had made the room glow.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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