'Prodigious' definitions:
Definition of 'prodigious'
From: WordNet
adjective
So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: colossal, prodigious, stupendous]
adjective
Of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: portentous, prodigious]
adjective
Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing]
Definition of 'Prodigious'
From: GCIDE
- Prodigious \Pro*di"gious\, a. [L. prodigiosus, fr. prodigium a prodigy; cf. F. prodigieux. See Prodigy.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. [Obs. or R.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder. "Prodigious might." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous; amazing; astonishing; extraordinary. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prodigious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysmal,
- amazing,
- amplitudinous,
- astonishing,
- astounding,
- astronomic,
- astronomical,
- Atlantean,
- awesome,
- beguiling,
- bewildering,
- bewitched,
- boundless,
- Brobdingnagian,
- bulky,
- colossal,
- cosmic,
- cracking,
- Cyclopean,
- cyclopean,
- dumbfounding,
- elephantine,
- enchanted,
- enigmatic,
- enormous,
- epic,
- exceptional,
- extensive,
- extraordinary,
- fabulous,
- fantastic,
- fascinating,
- flabbergasting,
- galactic,
- Gargantuan,
- gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- Herculean,
- heroic,
- Homeric,
- huge,
- humongous,
- immeasurable,
- immense,
- incomprehensible,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- indescribable,
- ineffable,
- infinite,
- jumbo,
- king-size,
- large,
- legendary,
- leviathan,
- magical,
- mammoth,
- marvelous,
- massive,
- massy,
- mighty,
- mind-blowing,
- mind-boggling,
- miraculous,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mortal,
- mountainous,
- mythical,
- necromantic,
- notable,
- noteworthy,
- outlandish,
- outsize,
- overgrown,
- passing strange,
- phenomenal,
- portentous,
- profound,
- puzzling,
- rare,
- remarkable,
- sensational,
- sizable,
- spacious,
- spectacular,
- staggering,
- startling,
- strange,
- striking,
- stupefying,
- stupendous,
- surprising,
- thaumaturgic,
- titanic,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- unexampled,
- unheard-of,
- unimaginable,
- unique,
- unparalleled,
- unprecedented,
- unspeakable,
- unusual,
- vast,
- voluminous,
- weighty,
- wonder-working,
- wonderful,
- wondrous