Prodigious

Definition: Prodigious

Prodigious

Adjective

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".

2. Of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prodigious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Prodigious \Pro*di"gious\, adjective. [Latin expression prodigiosus, from prodigium prodigy; compare to French prodigieux. See Prodigy.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Prodigious

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Impossibility

Adjective: impossible; not possible; absurd, contrary to reason; unlikely; unreasonable; incredible; beyond the bounds of reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility; from which reason recoils; visionary; inconceivable; (improbable); prodigious; (wonderful); unimaginable, inimaginable; unthinkable.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Wonder

Monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange; (uncommon); passing strange.

Crosswords: Prodigious

Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy. (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Books

• Horse Preacher: A Methodist Circuit Rider Travels the Prodigious Tallgrass Prairies of Illinois During the 1830s (reference)

• Mind of Society: From a Fruitful Analogy of Minsky to a Prodigious Idea of Teilhard de Chardin (The World Futures General Evolution Studies) (reference)

• Orson Welles: A Prodigious Life (reference)

• Prodigious Thrust (reference)

• Professor Popkin's Prodigious Polish: A Tale of Coven Tree (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Prodigious Hickey (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Prodigious Piano Of Bobby Enriquez [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1933)

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Although he was no longer young, it was reported that he was of prodigious strength.

I felt my box raised very high in the air, and then borne forward with prodigious speed.

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Economic History

Morocco

The Moroccan cellular estimated market growth rate exceeds 50%. Subscriptions continued to increase since the inauguration of a second GSM license in April 2000. The Spanish Telefonica-led consortium, Meditel, subscriptions went up from 2,000 subscribers in 2000 to more than one million in May 2001. The government-owned existing license, Maroc Telecom, increased its investments (estimated to exceed USD 300 million in 2000), improved its marketing and promotional activities to very effectively meet the new competition, increasing subscribers from one million subscribers in summer of 2000 to 3 million in May 2001. A tender for a third mobile license is slated for 2003. The penetration rate, however, represents only 5%, which offers a prodigious potential to American businesses. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "prodigious": have a prodigious run. Additional references.

Albanian

i stërmadh (huge, monster, monstrous), i paanë (endless, immense, infinite, measureless), i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous), i jashtëzakonshëm (egregious, emergency, exceeding, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, powerful, sole, stupendous, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual, wonderful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معجز (miraculous), ‏مذهل (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, confusing, dumbfounding, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, stupendous), ‏مدهش (agape, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏غير عادي (off beat, remarkable, uncommon, unorthodox, unusual), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏إستثنائي (especial, exceptional, exceptive, extraneous, extraordinary, freak, freaked, mighty, out of the ordinary, particular, phenomenal, premium, rare, remarkable, singular, special, terrific, thundering, uncommon, unusual), ‏أعجوبي (miraculous), ‏شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удивителен (amazing, astonishing, astounding, dizzy, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastic, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), чудовищен (enormous, miscreated, monster, monstrous, unnatural), грамаден (enormous, exceeding, huge, immeasurable, immense, lumping, monster, monstrous, mountainous), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mammoth, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), ненормален (insane, irregular), изумителен (amazing, astonishing, overwhelming, splashing, startling, stupendous, surprising). (various references)

Czech

podivuhodný (admirable, marvelous, wonderful), nesmírný (enormous, extreme, great, immeasurable, immense, infinite, rare, unbounded, utmost, vast), úžasný (admirable, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, glorious, hot, nailing, phenomenal, splendid, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, wonderful). (various references)

Farsi 

حیرت اور (Marvelous, Problematic, Stupendous, Wondrous), غیرعادی (Abnormal, Anomalous, Extraordinary, Irregular, Queer, Unco, Uncommon, Unusual, Unwonted, Utter), شگفت (Muse, Stupendous, Surprise, Wonder), شگرف (Excellent, Fine, Tremendous, Wondrous). (various references)

French

prodigieux, extraordinaire. (various references)

German

wunderbar (admirable, delightful, delightfully, lovely, magically, marvellous, marvellously, marvelous, miraculous, miraculously, prodigiously, wonderful, wonderfully, wondrous). (various references)

Greek 

καταπληκτικόσ (amazing, astounding, startling, striking, stunning, stupendous, tremendous), τεράστιοσ (enormous, gargantuan, huge, monster, stupendous), θαυμάσιοσ (admirable, fabulous, marvellous, marvelous, stunning, topping, wonderful). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפליא (amazing, marvellous, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Hungarian

bámulatos (amazing, gorgeous, marvellous, marvelous, surprising, wonderful), óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Italian

prodigioso (magic, magical, portentous, wonderful). (various references)

Manx

yindyssagh (admirable, marvellous, rare, surprising, terrific, wonderer, wonderful). (various references)

Pig Latin

odigiouspray

Portuguese

prodigioso (miraculous, phenomenal, portentous, stupendous, wonderful, wondrous), maravilhoso (amazing, delightful, lovely, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, portentous, unco, wonderful, wondrous), incomum (freakish, uncommon, unusual), extraordinário (amazing, exquisite, extra, extraordinary, formidable, king-size, miraculous, particular, phenomenal, rare, remarkable, sensational, shining, singular, special, sublime, surpassing, transcendent, tremendous, uncommon, unusual, unwonted), estupendo (boss, monumental, sensational, stupendous), enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Romanian

prodigios (prodigiously, stupendous, stupendously), uriaş (astronomic, astronomical, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mammoth, mite, monster, monumental, mountainous, ogre, strapping, thumping, vast), uimitor (amazing, astonishing, marvellous, startling, striking, stupendous, surprising), fenomenal (astonishingly, extraordinary, marvellous, monumental, phenomenal, phenomenally, remarkably, wonderfully), extraordinar (amazing, arch, astonishing, egregious, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, proud, rare, rattling, remarkable, special, striking, terrible, tremendous, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never, wonderful), enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, enormous, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, terrible, thundering, tremendous, vast, whopping), anormal (abnormal, abnormally, anomalous, monstrous). (various references)

Russian 

огромный (biggish, cosmic, devastating, enormous, enourmous, giantlike, huge, immense, knock out, massive, monster, terrific, tremendous, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Scottish

fuathasach (dreadful, terrible; prodigious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gorostasan (walloping), čudesan (miraculous, stupendous, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Spanish

prodigioso (downy, wonderful), portentoso (portentous), ingente (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, huge), enorme (cyclopean, egregious, enormous, great, gross, heinous, huge, immense, jumbo, killing, king size, marvellous, marvelous, massive, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, swingeing, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking). (various references)

Swedish

oerhörd (egregious, enormous, exorbitant, unheard of). (various references)

Turkish

olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), şaşılacak (amazing, astonishing, astounding, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Ukrainian

страхітливий (appalling, frightful, horrendous, horrific, unnatural, whopping), чудесний (miraculous, wonderful), величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), надзвичайний (abysmal, dense, dreadful, egregious, exceeding, exceptional, extreme, snorting, uncommon, unusual, water, woundy), дивовижний (amazing, electrical, extraordinary, heavenly, marvellous, marvelous, outlandish, portentous, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phi thường (hyperphysical, inconceivable, marvellous, miraculous, phenomenal, remarkable, slashing, superhuman, uncommon, unimaginable), lớn lao (considerably, grandiose, substantively), kỳ lạ; to lớn. (various references)

Welsh

aruthrol (huge). (various references)

ingens. (various references)

varecanguhañtem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prodigious": prodigiously, prodigiousness, prodigiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prodigious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pordigious, predigious, prodgious, prodidgious, prodigeous, prodigioius, prodigiosus, prodigous, prodiguous, prodigus, prodijious, protogynous, prudigious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: groupoids.

-2 letters: groupoid.

-3 letters: opioids, spiroid, sporoid, upgirds, uropods.

-4 letters: droops, gourds, groups, guiros, iodous, isopod, odious, odours, opioid, pirogi, pooris, porous, upgird, uropod.

-5 letters: dipso, doors, dorps, drips, droop, drops, drugs, duros, girds, giros, goods, goops, gorps, gourd, grids, grips, group, guids, guiro, irids, odors, odour, ordos, pious, pirog, poods, poori, pours, prigs, prods.

+2 letters: prodigiously.

+4 letters: prodigiousness.