adj
Meaning 1
Extraordinarily amazing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prodigious
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/
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General-American: /pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/
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General-American: /pɹoʊ-/
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adj
Meaning 2
Extraordinarily amazing.
In a positive sense: marvellous, wonderful; (specifically) extremely talented, especially at a young age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: precocious
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Extraordinarily amazing.
In a negative sense: appalling, horrifying, shocking; (specifically, archaic) abnormal, freakish, monstrous, unnatural.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: monstrous, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, incongruous, incongruitous, irregular, kooky, nonstandard, odd, outlandish, out of the ordinary, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as a coot, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, uncouth, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy
Antonyms: average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, everyday, expected, garden variety, improminent, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, par for the course, par, plain, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday, workaday
adj
Meaning 4
Very big in extent, quantity, or size; abundant; intense; colossal, huge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: extreme, prolific, enormous, gigantic, ample, big, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, massive, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge
Antonyms: compact, fun size, fun-sized, ickle, insignificant, lit'l, little, low, modest, mini, petty, pint-sized, pocket-size, slim, slight, small, small-scale, undersized, wee, wurly
adj
Meaning 5
Having the nature of an omen or portent; ominous, portentous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: foreboding, inauspicious, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, nefastous, omenic, ominous, brooding, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 6
Synonym of prodigiously (“in a prodigious manner”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prodigiously
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple
- has a colossal nerve
- a prodigious storm
- a stupendous field of grass
- stupendous demand
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colossal, stupendous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a night of exceeding darkness
- an exceptional memory
- olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy
- the young Mozart's prodigious talents
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
of momentous or ominous significance- Herman Melville
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity
- a prodigious vision
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: portentous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *h1eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h1ǵyéti Proto-Italic *agjō Proto-Italic *ajjō Latin aiō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin prōdigium Proto-Indo-European *h3ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h3édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin prōdigiōsusbor. Middle English prodigious English prodigious The adjective is derived from Late Middle English prodigious (“warning of disaster, portentous”), from Latin prōdigiōsus (“strange, unnatural; marvellous, wonderful, prodigious”), from prōdigium (“prophetic sign, omen, portent; prodigy, wonder”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of’ forming adjectives from nouns). Prōdigium is derived from prō- (prefix denoting a forward direction, something before or prior, or prominence) + aiō (“to say, speak”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1eǵ- (“to say”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as prodigy + -ous. The adverb is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Catalan prodigiós * Middle French prodigieux (“portentous”) (modern French prodigieux) * Italian prodigioso * Portuguese prodigioso * Spanish prodigioso
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: զարմանալի (zarmanali) — extraordinarily amazing
- Bulgarian: изумителен (izumitelen) — extraordinarily amazing
- Bulgarian: удивителен (udivitelen) — extraordinarily amazing
- Catalan: prodigiós — extraordinarily amazing
- Dutch: verbazingwekkend — extraordinarily amazing
- Estonian: hämmastav — extraordinarily amazing
- Finnish: ällistyttävä — extraordinarily amazing
- Finnish: hämmästyttävä — extraordinarily amazing
- French: prodigieux — extraordinarily amazing
- German: verwunderlich — extraordinarily amazing
- Hungarian: bámulatos — extraordinarily amazing
- Hungarian: csodálatos — extraordinarily amazing
- Hungarian: páratlan — extraordinarily amazing
- Hungarian: tüneményes — extraordinarily amazing
- Icelandic: stórkostlegur — extraordinarily amazing
- Italian: prodigioso — extraordinarily amazing
- Latvian: apbrīnojams — extraordinarily amazing
- Macedonian: чу́десен (čúdesen) — extraordinarily amazing
- Macedonian: неверо́јатен (neverójaten) — extraordinarily amazing
- Norwegian: fenomenal — extraordinarily amazing
- Occitan: prodigiós — extraordinarily amazing
- Portuguese: prodigioso — extraordinarily amazing
- Russian: изуми́тельный (izumítelʹnyj) — extraordinarily amazing
- Russian: порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) — extraordinarily amazing
- Russian: удиви́тельный (udivítelʹnyj) — extraordinarily amazing
- Russian: умопомрачи́тельный (umopomračítelʹnyj) — extraordinarily amazing
- Slovak: podivuhodný — extraordinarily amazing
- Spanish: prodigioso — extraordinarily amazing
- Swedish: häpnadsväckande — extraordinarily amazing
- Turkish: hayret verici — extraordinarily amazing
- Turkish: şaşırtıcı — extraordinarily amazing
- Bulgarian: огромен (ogromen) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Catalan: prodigiós — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Finnish: mahtava — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Finnish: suunnaton — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- German: gewaltig — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- German: ungeheuer — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Ancient Greek: πέλωρος (pélōros) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Hungarian: hatalmas — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Hungarian: óriási — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Japanese: 途方もない (tohōmonai) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Macedonian: о́громен (ógromen) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Romanian: prodigios — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Romanian: enorm — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Romanian: gigantic — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Romanian: neobișnuit — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Romanian: vast — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Russian: чрезме́рный (črezmérnyj) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Russian: грома́дный (gromádnyj) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Russian: непоме́рный (nepomérnyj) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Russian: огро́мный (ogrómnyj) — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Swedish: enorm — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Swedish: gigantisk — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Swedish: ofantlig — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Turkish: devasa — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Turkish: kocaman — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge
- Turkish: muazzam — very big in extent, quantity, or size — see also abundant, intense, huge