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noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of volume

1 a considerable amount
  • We can only make money if we sell our goods in volume.
Synonyms of volume

abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to volume

epidemic, plague, rash

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood, overflow

army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng
Phrases Synonymous with volume

all kinds (of), quite a bit
Near Antonyms of volume

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

smatter, smattering
Antonyms of volume

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, tad, touch, trace
2 a given or particular mass or aggregate of matter
  • produces great volumes of work each day
Synonyms of volume

amount, measure, quantity, quantum
Words Related to volume

coefficient, degree

body, portion

many, number
3 a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction
  • reissued the trilogy in a single volume
Synonyms of volume

book, tome
Words Related to volume

hardback, hardcover, paper, paperback, paperbound, pocket book, pocket edition, softback, softcover, trade book, trade edition

folio, quarto

guidebook, handbook, how-to, manual

catalog (or catalogue), cyclopedia (also cyclopaedia), dictionary, encyclopedia

monograph, primer, text, textbook, tract, treatise

novel, novelette, pulp

album, almanac, anthology, casebook, chapbook, nonbook, omnibus, picture book
4 the largest number or amount that something can hold
  • State the barrel's volume in terms of gallons.
Synonyms of volume

capacity, complement
Words Related to volume

burden, fill, fullness, load, measure

area, room, space, stowage

Synonym Discussion of volume

bulk, mass, volume mean the aggregate that forms a body or unit. bulk implies an aggregate that is impressively large, heavy, or numerous.
    • the darkened bulk of the skyscrapers
mass suggests an aggregate made by piling together things of the same kind.
    • a mass of boulders
volume applies to an aggregate without shape or outline and capable of flowing or fluctuating.
    • a tremendous volume of water

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