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Definitions for prodigious
prəˈdɪdʒ əsprodi·gious

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. colossal, prodigious, stupendousadjective

    so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe

    "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"

  2. portentous, prodigiousadjective

    of momentous or ominous significance

    "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"

  3. exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassingadjective

    far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree

    "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"

Wiktionary

  1. prodigiousadjective

    Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. PRODIGIOUSadjective

    Amazing; astonishing; such as may seem a prodigy; portentous; enormous; monstrous; amazingly great.

    Etymology: prodigiosus, Lat. prodigieux, Fr.

    If e’er he have a child, abortive it be,
    Prodigious and untimely brought to light. William Shakespeare.

    An emission of immateriate virtues we are a little doubtful to propound, it being so prodigious; but that it is constantly avouched by many. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Brown.

    Then entring at the gate,
    Conceal’d in clouds, prodigious to relate,
    He mix’d, unmark’d, among the busy throng. Dryden.

    The Rhone enters the lake, and brings along with it a prodigious quantity of water. Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy.

    It is a scandal to christianity, that in towns, where there is a prodigious increase in the number of houses and inhabitants, so little care should be taken for churches. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. prodigious

    Prodigious generally means remarkably or impressively great in extent, size or degree; extraordinary or exceptional. It can also refer to something that is unnatural or abnormal.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prodigiousadjective

    of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous

  2. Prodigiousadjective

    extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of prodigious in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of prodigious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of prodigious in a Sentence

  1. Mark Twain:

    I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

  2. E. E. Cummings:

    America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  3. Virginia:

    One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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