Hypertext Webster Gateway: "prodigious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prodigious \Pro*di"gious\, a. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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},
{stupendous}]
2: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a
portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman
Melville; "a prodigious vision" [syn: {portentous}]
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}, {surpassing}]
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