Definition of "prodigiously" [pro•di•gious•ly]

• In a prodigious manner; enormously, wonderfully, astonishingly or impressively (adverb)

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• "a smallish man in great wig and befeathered hat and in his fist a sword prodigiously long in the blade, which sword he flourished whereat (as it were a signal) out from her mizzen wafted the banner of Portugal, and immediately she opened fire on us from her stern-chase guns."
• "Wolfe had a certain turn of mind which favoured matrimony "prodigiously," and he had fallen very much in love with Miss Lawson, Maid of Honour to the"
• ""prodigiously" respected by none, -- this gentleman, I say, by name Mr. Lovell, had attended her ladyship in her excursion to Devereux Court."