Prodigiously
[prəu'didʒəsli]
Definition
(adv.) to a prodigious degree; 'the prices of farms rose prodigiously'.
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Definition
(adv.) Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.
(adv.) Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased.
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Examples
- As she said it, Miss Wren suddenly broke off, screwed up her eyes and her chin, and looked prodigiously knowing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The first sold prodigiously, the event being recent, and having made a great noise. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He wiped his pale face with a large yellow bandanna pocket-handkerchief that was prodigiously scented. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was an industrious student both of mathematics and history, his memory was prodigiously good, and he made copious note-books which still exist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The yellow postilion cracked his whip prodigiously, up sprang Francis to the box, away went the schimmels, and Dobbin with his head on his breast. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Chadband, however, having concluded for the present, sits down at Mr. Snagsby's table and lays about him prodigiously. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr Fledgeby could only express the feelings to which this incredible statement gave rise in his breast, by a prodigiously long derisive sniff. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Thus, this cyclopean operation may be continuously conducted with an amount of power prodigiously inferior, in proportion, to the results accomplished. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am prodigiously proud of him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They are prodigiously nimble from their infancy. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Which the driver (knowing there was no other fare left inside) stared at prodigiously. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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