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Adjective prodigious has 3 senses
- colossal, prodigious, stupendous - so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
- portentous, prodigious - of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
Antonyms: insignificant, unimportant (indirect, via significant)
- exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing - far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
Antonym: ordinary (indirect, via extraordinary)
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