prodigiouspro‧di‧gious /prəˈdɪdʒəs/ adjective [usually before noun]Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Building the bridge was a prodigious feat of engineering and finance.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
And as we all know from the great chemical fire of 1994, an unhappy Sprewell is a prodigious bummer indeed.
Fund-raisers used fears of destruction to raise the prodigious sums that fueled the entire machine.
He fell in love, via a prodigious email correspondence, with another academic whom he had met fleetingly at a conference.
He scored a try, dropped a goal and controlled the game with some prodigious kicking mixed with some beautifully balanced running.
He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
It was designed by the prodigious bridge-builder, Thomas Bouch.
The building was a prodigious limestone parthenon done in the early thirties in the Civic Moderne style.
This was written in 1824 when the prodigious composer was only 15.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►prodigious amounts/quantities of something
Some galaxies seem to release prodigious amounts of energy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►amount
· A major tsunami will deposit broken trees near the high-water mark and move prodigious amounts of sediment.· Pizza, pocket sandwiches, ribs and lemon chicken also are turned out in prodigious amounts.
very large or great in a surprising or impressive wayprodigious amounts/quantities of something Some galaxies seem to release prodigious amounts of energy. the artist’s prodigious output—prodigiously adverb