Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a prodigious manner.
- Wonderfully; astonishingly; enormously: as, a number prodigiously great.
- Excessively; immensely; extremely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly.
- adverb colloq. Very much; extremely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
prodigious manner;enormously ,wonderfully ,astonishingly orimpressively
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to a prodigious degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915
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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
Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866
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"prodigiously" respected by none, -- this gentleman, I say, by name Mr. Lovell, had attended her ladyship in her excursion to Devereux Court.
Devereux — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"prodigiously" respected by none, -- this gentleman, I say, by name Mr. Lovell, had attended her ladyship in her excursion to Devereux Court.
Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The prodigiously gifted character actress Margo Martindale Million Dollar Baby heads up the clan as Mags Bennett, a marijuana queenpin who seamlessly slides between warm-hearted affection and cold-blooded murder.
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The pigeons are prodigious here, and they must die prodigiously.
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A prodigiously talented 21-year-old from a tiny town in the foothills of the Alps who fell into the sport by accident and one day woke up to worldwide celebrity as the fastest white guy on the planet.
Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status 2011
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Phil had a fluid, Irish tenor with a perfect vibrato and wrote prodigiously.
Michael Simmons: Phil Ochs Lives! Michael Simmons 2011
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He argued that, given the British enthusiasm for Wagner, profit would be guaranteed and the "social utility prodigiously greater" than any derived from other public pleasure domes on which money is wasted.
Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010
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He is precocious, fully verbal, and prodigiously intelligent.
Negotiating Difference in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites Erika Nelson 2009
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