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Webster 1913 Edition

Prodigious

Pro-di′gious

,
Adj.
[L.
prodigiosus
, fr.
prodigium
a prodigy; cf. F.
prodigieux
. See
Prodigy
.]
1.
Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
[Obs. or R.]
Spenser.
It is
prodigious
to have thunder in a clear sky.
Sir T. Browne.
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.
Syn. – Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous; amazing; astonishing; extraordinary.

Webster 1828 Edition

Prodigious

PRODIG'IOUS

,
Adj.
[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 seem a prodigy;monstrous; portentous.
It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky.
Prodigious to relate.

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