Both Uses of
prodigious
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dantes possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.†
Chpt 17-18
- These last words produced a prodigious effect on the seaman.†
Chpt 29-30 *
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree