Definition of Prodigious

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Prodigious

Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.

Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.

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Prodigious Quotations

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
e. e. cummings

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
William Banting

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
Jose C. Orozco

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