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enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree- As a child, Mozart had a prodigious talent.
prodigious = enormous
- It is the most prodigious project of her career so far.
- a prodigious storm
- There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country—Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- This is a gigantic city, after all, and it produces a prodigious volume of garbage.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- Stanley [prodigiously elated]:Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire
- And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have a Dream
- "Yeah, the circle was prodigious," Erin said.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- Father Zeus, you send mankind prodigious follies.Homer -- The Iliad
- the prodigious power which had been exertedEdgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- She was a witch, as Harry knew, with prodigious skill and no conscience.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- the easiest and the quickest way to get the makings of the vicarage to the village was to hire a forestry barge at a prodigious thirty dollars a day.Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- the prodigious quantity of snowDaniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination.Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- in the middle of a prodigiously tough snoreCharles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- They were conducted to the platform by Buckstone ... and were delivered to the chairman in the midst of a prodigious explosion of welcome.Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- ...nothing living on it but game birds ... and the gulls which haunted the outlying rocks in a prodigious number.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
- That is the most prodigious girl in this school!Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- our prodigious experienceHenry James -- The Turn of the Screw
prodigious = enormous
prodigious = enormous
prodigious = enormous
prodigiously = far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
prodigious = enormous
prodigious = enormous
prodigious = enormous (far beyond what is usual in magnitude)
prodigious = enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
prodigious = enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
prodigious = enormous
prodigious = large amount (far beyond what is usual)
prodigious = far beyond what is usual
prodigiously = far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
prodigious = enormous; or far beyond the usual amount
prodigious = far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
prodigious = enormous (a very large number)
prodigious = fabulous (beyond what is usual)
prodigious = enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
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