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单词 prodigious
释义
prodigious
adjective
formal
uk
/prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/us
/prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/
extremelygreatinability,amount, orstrength:
强大的，巨大的
Shewroteatrulyprodigiousnumberofnovels.她写了数量极多的小说。
She was a prodigiousmusician.她是一位不同凡响的音乐家。
He had a prodigiousappetitefor both women anddrink.他对女人和酒有着强烈的欲望。
Synonyms
astronomical(LARGE)informal
big(LARGE)
colossal
elephantineformal
enormous
gargantuan
giant
gigantic
ginormousinformal
goodlyold-fashioned
great(BIG)
hefty
huge
immense
jumbo
large
mahoosiveUKinformal
mammoth
massive
outsize
oversizemainlyUS
respectable
sizeablemainlyUK
stupendous
thumpingUKinformal
tidymainlyUK
tremendous
vast
voluminousformal
wallopinginformalhumorous
whoppinginformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Enormous
  • almighty
  • astronomical
  • astronomically
  • behemoth
  • bumper
  • by far and awayidiom
  • cavernous
  • immeasurable
  • immeasurably
  • immense
  • immensity
  • inordinate
  • mountainous
  • precipitous
  • prodigiously
  • stratospheric
  • super-colossal
  • supersized
  • terrific
  • thumping
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prodigiously
(Definition ofprodigiousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prodigious| American Dictionary

prodigious
adjective
us
/prəˈdɪdʒ·əs/
extremelygreatinability,amount, orstrength:
Americansare the world’s most prodigiousconsumers.

prodigiously

adverbus
/prəˈdɪdʒ·əs·li/
a prodigiouslygiftedartist
(Definition ofprodigiousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprodigious

prodigious
Whilst the influence of this choleric cleric andprodigiouswriter was enormous, scholarly interest has been slight.
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Or, it may have been due to the book'sprodigiouslength, which taxed even the most enthusiastic commentators.
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Hisprodigiousoutput includes nineteen tragedies, seventeen satires and six comedies.
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However, theprodigiousstrides in research on phototransduction biochemistry, photoreceptor physiology, molecular biology, and quantitative modeling now bring this exciting goal within sight.
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His devotion to the collection of material and the propagation of information wasprodigious.
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The first is that, precisely because they are vulnerable, they go toprodigiouslengths to protect themselves.
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Sometimes the spotlight fell onprodigiouschildren and adolescents.
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Someprodigiousdistances were rowed in search of otters.
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He had aprodigiousreputation and people came from miles around to spend time in his shadow.
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In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in theprodigiousamounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine.
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Our astronomers also make theprodigiousinter-stellar distances, which we can calculate but not comprehend, commensurate to other more comprehensible magnitudes and times.
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Hanley has doneprodigiouswork reconstructing company accounts from newspapers, almanacs, legislation and company records.
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Either would have filled the gap handsomely, addressing its subject with obvious authority, based on plainly painstaking research and diligent examination of aprodigiouspile of scores.
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Hamburger has doneprodigioushistorical detective work, and his book deservedly will become a staple in the history of the religion clauses.
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