Prodigious
(adjective)
- Extremely impressive, great, or significant in amount, size, or degree.
- Extraordinary in size, amount, or degree.
- Remarkable or exceptional in some way.
Origin:
From latin prodigious, from prodige ("a portent, a prodigy"), from prodigium ("a prodigy, an omen"), from prodigus ("extraordinary, wonderful, amazing").
Examples:
- The singer has a prodigious talent for singing.
- The athlete has prodigious strength.
- He had a prodigious memory and could recite long poems from memory.
- The company's growth has been prodigious in the last 5 years.
- The amount of work that he accomplished was prodigious.