Prodigious (adjective)

  1. Extremely impressive, great, or significant in amount, size, or degree.
  2. Extraordinary in size, amount, or degree.
  3. 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:

  1. The singer has a prodigious talent for singing.
  2. The athlete has prodigious strength.
  3. He had a prodigious memory and could recite long poems from memory.
  4. The company's growth has been prodigious in the last 5 years.
  5. The amount of work that he accomplished was prodigious.
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