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Prodigious

PRODIG'IOUS, a. [L. prodigiosus. See Prodigy.] 1. Very great; huge; enormous in size, quantity, extent, _c.; as a mountain of prodigious size or altitude; a prodigious mass or quantity of water; an ocean or pl...

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PRODIG'IOUS, a. [L. prodigiosus. See Prodigy.]

1. Very great; huge; enormous in size, quantity, extent, _c.; as a mountain of prodigious size or altitude; a prodigious mass or quantity of water; an ocean or plain of prodigious extent. Hence,

2. Wonderful; astonishing; such as may See M a prodigy;monstrous; portentous.

It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky.

Prodigious to relate.

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