prodigious

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒəs

Adjective

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!

Synonyms

• gigantic
• colossal
• huge
• enormous
• Ruthian
• See also Wikisaurus:gigantic

Derived terms

• prodigiously

Related terms

• prodigy

Translations

gigantic or huge

Finnish: suunnaton (fi), mahtava (fi) German: ungeheuer (de), gewaltig (de) Japanese: 途方もない (とほうもない, tohōmonai)

Romanian: enorm (ro) m. and n., gigantic (ro), prodigios (ro), vast (ro), neobișnuit (ro) m. and n. Russian: чрезмерный (ru), громадный (ru)

External links

• prodigious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• prodigious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• prodigious at OneLook Dictionary Search