prodigious

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
  • "a prodigious storm"
• of momentous or ominous significance; - Herman Melville
  • "a prodigious vision"
• far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
  • "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"

Adj

• Extraordinarily amazing.
• In a positive sense: marvellous, wonderful; (specifically) extremely talented, especially at a young age.
• Extraordinarily amazing.
• In a negative sense: appalling, horrifying, shocking; (specifically, archaic) abnormal, freakish, monstrous, unnatural.
• Extraordinarily amazing.
• Very big in extent, quantity, or size; abundant; intense; colossal, huge.
• Having the nature of an omen or portent; ominous, portentous.

Adv

• Synonym of prodigiously (“in a prodigious manner”).

Synonyms

aberrant, abnormal, alien, ample, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, astronomic, augurous, baleful, behemothic, big, big fat, bizarre, bodacious, bodeful, boding, boxcar, broad, Brobdingnagian, brooding, bulky, colossal, commodious, considerable, curious, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, deviant, dire, disastrous, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, elephantic, elephantine, enormous, errant, exceeding, exceptional, expansive, extraordinary, extreme, fatal, fey, forby, foreboding, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, full, funny, gargantuan, generous, giant, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous, grand, great, great big, hefty, hench, heteroclite, hinky, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, immane, immense, inauspicate, inauspicious, incongruitous, incongruous, irregular, jumbo, kooky, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, long, mahoosive, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, mega-, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, nefastous, nonstandard, odd, olympian, omenic, ominous, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, outsized, overlarge, oversize, oversized, pantagruelian, peculiar, portentous, precocious, presageful, presagious, prodigious, prodigiously, prolific, pyramidal, Pythonic, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, roomy, rotund, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, sinister, sizeable, spacious, star-crossed, stonking, strange, stupendous, sullen, super-, supersized, surpassing, tall, titanic, tremendous, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, vast, voluminous, weird, weirdsome, whopping, wide, yampy, yuge

Antonyms

conspicuous, different, egregious, exceptional, historic, interesting, large, memorable, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, remarkable, special, strange, unique

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