All 5 Uses of
prodigious
in
Sense and Sensibility
- —Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!†
Chpt 2 *
- "Norland is a prodigious beautiful place, is not it?" added Miss Steele.†
Chpt 21
- Now there's Mr. Rose at Exeter, a prodigious smart young man, quite a beau, clerk to Mr. Simpson, you know, and yet if you do but meet him of a morning, he is not fit to be seen.†
Chpt 21
- "'Twill be a fine thing to have her married so young to be sure," said she, "and I hear he is quite a beau, and prodigious handsome.†
Chpt 21
- The Dashwoods were so prodigiously delighted with the Middletons, that, though not much in the habit of giving anything, they determined to give them—a dinner; and soon after their acquaintance began, invited them to dine in Harley Street, where they had taken a very good house for three months.†
Chpt 34prodigiously = enormously; or with a magnitude or degree that is far beyond what is usual
Definition:
enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree