Prodigious
[prə'dɪdʒəs]
Definition
(a.) Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
(a.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Marvellous, wonderful, portentous, amazing, astonishing, surprising, astounding, strange, startling, extraordinary, uncommon, wondrous, miraculous, very strange, unheard of.[2]. Enormous, monstrous, huge.
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Examples
- They would often spring, and bound, and leap, with prodigious agility. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- His courage was prodigious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This course, persisted in, will soon make a prodigious difference in the quantity of wool. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A somewhat difficult feat, achieved with great dexterity, and with a prodigious splash. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Everybody wondered at the prodigious size and beauty of the Diamond, as a matter of course. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have advised a prodigious number of clients, and have dealt with some exceedingly awkward difficulties, in my time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was very rich and very respectable, and he begot a prodigious large family--all in his favour, so far. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It seemed they made a prodigious noise. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The great feature of the Mosque of Omar is the prodigious rock in the centre of its rotunda. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He will be a prodigious inconvenience to me, still persisted Mr. Home. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The latter was a feeble child, and it was only by prodigious quantities of calomel that Lady Southdown was able to keep him in life at all. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Still, that mountain, prodigious as it was, was nothing to the Pyramid of Cheops. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Norland is a prodigious beautiful place, is not it? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I felt my box raised very high in the air, and then borne forward with prodigious speed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The wealth of his grandfather was reported in the school to be prodigious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His memory was prodigious, conversation laconic, and movements rapid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus advised, Mrs. Pocket took it the other way, and got its head upon the table; which was announced to all present by a prodigious concussion. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Portuguese pennies, or reis (pronounced rays), are prodigious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thus Slackbridge; gnashing and perspiring after a prodigious sort. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Sincerely as I loathed the man, the prodigious strength of his character, even in its most trivial aspects, impressed me in spite of myself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This is a number too prodigious for the mind of man to grasp. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thus it appears that this vein of coal has suffered a prodigious settlement. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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