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prodigious

adjective
 
 
/prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/ formal

Definition

extremely great in ability, amount, or strength: She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels. She was a prodigious musician. He had a prodigious appetite for both women and drink.EnormousBig and quite big prodigiously
 
 
/-li/ adverb
He was a prodigiously gifted artist.EnormousBig and quite bigExtremely good
(Definition of prodigious adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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