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• The beaver in this instance upheld the reputation of the proverbial one: her output was prodigious.From the entry proverbial
• Reach for the Mentat and the prodigious profligation an expansion and exploration into the is.2013, Matthew Kowalski, Cyberpunk Tao. From the entry profligation
• You might have one of these prodigious vocabularians in your house.2010, Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. From the entry vocabularian
• It was so hot in this fever-swamp that his water requirements would be prodigious.2006, Hugh Cook, The Worshippers and the Way, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry fever-swamp
• The spacial depths between the glittering threads of the web and the chef seemed abysmic and prodigious.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry spacial
• What is it that has produced this new prodigious speed of man?1931 November 15, Winston Churchill, “Fifty Years Hence”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2020. From the entry science
• Thor rose from beside the rock with a prodigious whoof that roused Muskwa.1918, James Oliver Curwood, The Grizzly King. From the entry whoof
• And again he inhaled a prodigious breastful of the mountain air.1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord. From the entry breastful
• Indeed, Lascasian scholarship has greatly developed over the last two centuries as specialists have engaged his prodigious corpus of writings.2019, David Thomas Orique and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Introduction: Three Waves of Lascasian Scholarship”, in Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.…. From the entry Lascasian
• And swallows are the spring's agents, nesting in the rafters, eating, defecating, procreating, producing prodigious flocks of swallowlings.1989, Stephen Owen, Yuwen (Suo'an), Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire (page 92). From the entry swallowling
• The largest kopje bulges organically out of the ground, pachydermal, pregnant, prodigious, a bastion of permanence in a land of restless change.2012, Craig Packer, Into Africa. From the entry pachydermal
• Much like Cappelletto, his American child prodigy counterpart, Nyman has a prodigious, possibly eidetic memory, uncanny anagramming abilities, and better strategic vision than his peers.2001, Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak - Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players, page 246. From the entry eidetic memory
• According to artists, the lion is the most difficult of all animals to paint, on account of the prodigious mobility of his physiognomy.1913, Fr. Crastre, translated by Frederic Taber Cooper, Rosa Bonheur: Masterpieces in Color, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. From the entry physiognomy
• She leaned against me, so light and lily-frail, and as her trembling eased away it seemed as though I became aware of prodigious strength.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry lily-frail
• “You are prodigious,” he said, richly.1903, James Henry, “The Idealists”, in The Mortarboard, […] [T]he Junior Class of Barnard College, books II–III, pages 86–87. From the entry tremendosity
• The verbivorous author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll evinced a prodigious talent for merging two words and beheading parts of one or both.2012, Richard Lederer, Amazing Words. From the entry verbivorous
• He releases a prodigious, beerful belch that earns him a pat on the back from Simon and evokes a “Simon, for God's sake!” from Nancy in the kitchen window.2007, Peter Scott, Barter Island, Camden, ME: Down East Books, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry beerful
• Rather, from Bridgman’s account of her early career Stein emerges as an elephantess in the china shop of literature: “Expending prodigious amounts of energy, Stein thrashed erratically toward innovation.”1986, Janice L. Doane, Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page xvii. From the entry elephantess
• And according to an insistent story, Vince MacLean, a formal provincial Liberal leader and prodigious trougher running in Sydney-Victoria, was slapped in the face by a woman at the door.1997, The Canadian Forum, volume 76, page 10. From the entry trougher
• The poet had continually to be performing acrobatic feats, now of rhetoric or epigram, now of learning, or again in the description of blood-curdling horrors, monstrous deaths and prodigious sorceries.1908, Harold Edgeworth Butler, Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal. From the entry purple patch

Meaning of prodigious

1. adjective Extraordinarily amazing.
2. adjective In a positive sense: marvellous, wonderful; (specifically) extremely talented, especially at a young age.
3. adjective In a negative sense: appalling, horrifying, shocking; (specifically, archaic) abnormal, freakish, monstrous, unnatural.

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How do you use prodigious in a sentence?

Prodigious is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “The beaver in this instance upheld the reputation of the proverbial one: her output was prodigious.”

What is a short sentence with prodigious?

““You are prodigious,” he said, richly.”

What does prodigious mean?

Prodigious means extraordinarily amazing.