prodigious

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From French prodigieux, from Latin prodigiosus (unnatural, strange, wonderful, marvelous), from prodigium (an omen, portent, monster).

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prodigious (comparative more prodigious, superlative most prodigious)

  1. Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
    • 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!

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