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prodigious

[ pruh-dij-uhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.:
a prodigious research grant.
Synonyms: tremendous, gigantic, huge, immense, enormous
Antonyms: tiny
wonderful or marvelous:
a prodigious feat.
Synonyms: stupendous, amazing, miraculous, wondrous, astounding
Antonyms: ordinary
abnormal; monstrous.
Obsolete. ominous.

prodigious

/ prəˈdɪdʒəs /

First recorded in 1545–55, prodigious is from the Latin word prōdigiōsus marvelous. See prodigy, -ous

C16: from Latin prōdigiōsus marvellous, from prōdigium, see prodigy

No biography of Jack Nicholson could long skirt the issue of his prodigious appetites.

Indeed, after going to his reward, he has been publishing at a prodigious pace.

Couple with its prodigious online presence, it has become a global brand to be reckoned with.

He knows better than anyone the law of carnage and its prodigious repetitions in our time.

That would be quite a bombshell indeed—not to mention a prodigious technical feat.

I asked whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air about the time he first discovered me?

He was six feet ten inches in height, and his strength is represented to have been prodigious.

The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.

He has evidently some prodigious secret, which he is determined to envelope in still deeper secrecy.

He fancied that he could see it, even at this distance, and another of his prodigious sighs issued from his lips.

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