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prodigious 音标拼音: [prəd'ɪdʒəs] a. 很大的,惊人的,异常的 很大的,惊人的,异常的 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" [ synonym: { colossal}, { prodigious}, { stupendous}] 2: of momentous or ominous significance; " such a portentous... monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; " a prodigious vision" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { exceeding}, { exceptional}, { olympian}, { prodigious}, { surpassing}] 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] 114 Moby Thesaurus words for " prodigious": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, astonishing, astounding, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, beguiling, bewildering, bewitched, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, cyclopean, dumbfounding, elephantine, enchanted, enigmatic, enormous, epic, exceptional, extensive, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, flabbergasting, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, 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
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