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発音

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/
• 韻: -ɪdʒəs

形容詞

prodigious (comparative more prodigious, superlative most prodigious)

1. Very big in size or quantity; colossal, gigantic, huge.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:large

   • 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How John Look’d Over His Attorney’s Bill”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], OCLC 1083345579, page 20:

     When John firſt brought out the Bills, the Surprize of all the Family was unexpreſſible, at the prodigious Dimenſions of them; […]

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter または volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:

     Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!

   • 1820, William Hazlitt, “Lecture I. Introductory.”, in Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. […], London: Stodart and Steuart, […]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, OCLC 457734854, page 2:

     [T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.

2. Extraordinarily amazing or exciting.
3. Freakish; monstrous.
4. (obsolete) Ominous, portentous.

派生語

• prodigiously

Further reading

• prodigious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• prodigious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• prodigious at OneLook Dictionary Search