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prodigious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing |
the young Mozart's prodigious talents.
prodigious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | colossal, stupendous |
| Derivation | prodigy |
a prodigious storm.
prodigious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | portentous |
| Derivation | prodigy |
a prodigious vision.
Examples of prodigious
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Matsui, 36, has brought his prodigious star power and home run total to the A's.
From the sfgate.com
Of course, sports and entertainment often produce prodigious family connections.
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He asked for questions, which mainly concerned his prodigious charitable giving.
From the theatlantic.com
Jim Thome hits long homers, prodigious homers, majestic homers, a lot of homers.
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For it to disavow its regulatory lusts would be a prodigious act of self-denial.
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Vivendi Universal set out long-awaited plans to reduce its prodigious debt pile.
From the economist.com
China already extracts prodigious quantities of the latter-some 10bcm last year.
From the economist.com
Steve is a first-class journalist and I have long admired his prodigious output.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
It is prodigious how persons in the street can't face a multiform job like this.
From the iftomm2003.com
- Colossal: 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"
- Portentous: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- Exceeding: 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"
- (prodigiously) to a prodigious degree; "the prices of farms rose prodigiously"
- A child prodigy is someone who at an early age masters one or more skills at an adult level. One heuristic for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 15 years old, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding field of endeavor.
- Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge
- (adjective) extremely large in size, extent, or force
- (adj) extraordinary, esp. in size or amount; wonderful or marvelous
- Great in size, scale, scope, effort, force, etc..
