prodigious

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" [syn: {colossal},
           {prodigious}, {stupendous}]
    2: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
       portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
       Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: {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" [syn: {exceeding},
       {exceptional}, {olympian}, {prodigious}, {surpassing}]
    

Prodigious \Pro*di"gious\, a. [L. prodigiosus, fr. prodigium a
   prodigy; cf. F. prodigieux. See {Prodigy}.]
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   1. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful;
      portentous. [Obs. or R.] --Spenser.
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            It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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   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.
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   Syn: Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous;
        amazing; astonishing; extraordinary.
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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