Definition of "prodigious" []

• Impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous: a prodigious storm. (adjective)
• Extraordinary; marvelous: a prodigious talent. (adjective)
• Obsolete Portentous; ominous. (adjective)

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• "He grew foolishly proud and fond of what he called my prodigious advance."
• "The effect may be comic, but the fact that Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer would know words like "prodigious" is pretty amazing if you think about it nowadays."
• "I think prodigious is the word that best describes Winston Churchill the man-artist, orator, soldier, journalist, proud father and devoted husband, a connoisseur of food and wine and beauty, a passionate lover of life, of its great moments and its small pleasures."