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.
