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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
- Example: "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"
- Example: "has a colossal nerve"
- Example: "a prodigious storm"
- Example: "a stupendous field of grass"
- Example: "stupendous demand"
[syn: colossal, prodigious, stupendous]

2. of momentous or ominous significance;
- Example: "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
- Example: "a prodigious vision"
[syn: portentous, prodigious]

3. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree;
- Example: "a night of exceeding darkness"
- Example: "an exceptional memory"
- Example: "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"
- Example: "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
[syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prodigious \Pro*di"gious\, a. [L. prodigiosus, fr. prodigium a
   prodigy; cf. F. prodigieux. See Prodigy.]
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   1. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful;
      portentous. [Obs. or R.] --Spenser.
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            It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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   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.
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   Syn: Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous;
        amazing; astonishing; extraordinary.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prodigious
    adj 1: 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]
    2: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
       portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
       Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: portentous,
       prodigious]
    3: 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]