prodigious.

Exceptional in size, quantity, force, or extent.

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Words that belong together

• prodigious appetite
• prodigious strength

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A prodigious appetite exhausted the stores before the river crossing.

Prodigious strength lifted the fallen beam clear of the doorway.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more prodigious; superlative most prodigious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.