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Webster 1913 Edition
Prodigious
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;
“Prodigious might.” as, a
prodigious
mountain; a prodigious
creature; a prodigious
blunder. Milton.
Syn. – Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous; amazing; astonishing; extraordinary.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prodigious
PRODIG'IOUS
,Adj.
1.
Very great; huge; enormous in size, quantity, extent, &c.; as a mountain of prodigious size or altitude; a prodigious mass or quantity of water; an ocean or plain of prodigious extent. Hence,2.
Wonderful; astonishing; such as may seem a prodigy;monstrous; portentous. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky.
Prodigious to relate.
Definition 2024
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English
Adjective
prodigious (comparative more prodigious, superlative most prodigious)
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
- Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
- extraordinarily exciting or amazing
- (obsolete) ominous, portentous
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Translations
gigantic or huge
amazing
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