prodigious

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He grew foolishly proud and fond of what he called my prodigious advance De Chaumont's library was a luscious field, and Doctor Chantry was permitted to turn me loose in it, so that the books were almost like my own.

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  1. adjective Impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous: a prodigious storm.
  2. adjective Extraordinary; marvelous: a prodigious talent.
  3. adjective Obsolete Portentous; ominous.

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  • I've heard industry excuses that Mother Nature will take care of our prodigious wastes for us. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Their work ethic is prodigious, and, as [her friend] Tigerhawk points out, in their spare time they sit on the boards of most of the complex charities and arts institutions that provide aid and pay for culture in America. —  DownWithTyranny!
  • So prodigious were his efforts that more than once he had nearly torn himself free, but still the powerful arms of his captor held him as in a vise of iron. —  Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
  • The demand for cotton goods soon outran a crop which McCullough had pronounced "prodigious," and after 1845 the price started on a steady rise, which, except for the checks suffered during the continental revolutions and the Crimean War, continued until 1860. —  The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870
  • It seemed such a prodigious waste of time and energy to traffic and chaffer with these petty scoundrels. —  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
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  1. Latin prōdigiōsus, portentous, monstrous, from prōdigium, omen.

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  1. from French prodigieux = Spanish Portuguese Italian prodigioso, from Latin prodigiosus, unnatural, strange, wonderful, marvelous, from Prodigium, an omen, portent, monster: see prodigy.
 

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