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Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.

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  1. a. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
  2. a. Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
  3. adj. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
  4. adj. of momentous or ominous significance
  5. adj. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
  6. 1. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. [Obs. or R.] Spenser. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Sir T. Browne. 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. Syn. -- Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous; amazing; astonishing; extraordinary.
  7. j:100 s so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe s of momentous or ominous significance s far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree