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prodigious |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prodigious \Pro*di"gious\, a. [L. prodigiosus, fr prodigium a prodigy; cf F. prodigieux See {Prodigy}.] 1. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. [Obs. or R.] --Spenser. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder. ``Prodigious might.'' --Milton. Syn: Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous; amazing; astonishing; extraordinary. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: prodigious adj 1: 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" [syn: {colossal}, {stupendous}] 2: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: {portentous}] 3: 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" [syn: {exceeding}, {exceptional}, {olympian}, {surpassing}]
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