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词汇 prodigious
释义 prodigious
adjective
 formaluk /prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/ us /prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/
extremely great in ability, amount, or strength: 强大的,巨大的
She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.她写了数量极多的小说。
She was a prodigious musician.她是一位不同凡响的音乐家。
He had a prodigious appetite for both women and drink.他对女人和酒有着强烈的欲望。
Synonyms
astronomical(LARGE)informal
big(LARGE)
colossal
elephantineformal
enormous
gargantuan
giant
gigantic
ginormousinformal
goodlyold-fashioned
great(BIG)
hefty
huge
immense
jumbo
large
mahoosiveUKinformal
mammoth
massive
outsize
oversizemainly US
respectable
sizeablemainlyUK
stupendous
thumpingUKinformal
tidymainly UK
tremendous
vast
voluminousformal
wallopinginformalhumorous
whoppinginformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enormous
astronomical
astronomically
behemoth
bigly
by far and awayidiom
immeasurable
immeasurably
immense
immensity
inordinate
precipitous
stratospheric
stratospherically
super-colossal
supersized
terrific
thumping
walloping
yawning
yawningly

Related word


prodigiously

prodigious | American Dictionary


prodigious
adjective
us/prəˈdɪdʒ·əs/
extremely great in ability, amount, or strength:
Americans are the world’s most prodigious consumers.

prodigiously


adverbus/prəˈdɪdʒ·əs·li/
a prodigiously gifted artist

Examples of prodigious


prodigious
Whilst the influence of this choleric cleric and prodigious writer was enormous, scholarly interest has been slight.
Or, it may have been due to the book's prodigious length, which taxed even the most enthusiastic commentators.
His prodigious output includes nineteen tragedies, seventeen satires and six comedies.
However, the prodigious strides in research on phototransduction biochemistry, photoreceptor physiology, molecular biology, and quantitative modeling now bring this exciting goal within sight.
His devotion to the collection of material and the propagation of information was prodigious.
The first is that, precisely because they are vulnerable, they go to prodigious lengths to protect themselves.
Sometimes the spotlight fell on prodigious children and adolescents.
Some prodigious distances were rowed in search of otters.
He had a prodigious reputation and people came from miles around to spend time in his shadow.
In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in the prodigious amounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine.
Our astronomers also make the prodigious inter-stellar distances, which we can calculate but not comprehend, commensurate to other more comprehensible magnitudes and times.
Hanley has done prodigious work reconstructing company accounts from newspapers, almanacs, legislation and company records.
Either would have filled the gap handsomely, addressing its subject with obvious authority, based on plainly painstaking research and diligent examination of a prodigious pile of scores.
Hamburger has done prodigious historical detective work, and his book deservedly will become a staple in the history of the religion clauses.
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