prodigious

prodigious is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
2. adjective. Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
3. adjective. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe

   "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"

   "has a colossal nerve"

   Synonyms: colossal, stupendous

4. adjective. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree

   "a night of exceeding darkness"

   "an exceptional memory"

   Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing

5. adjective. of momentous or ominous significance- Herman Melville

   "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"

   "a prodigious vision"

   Synonyms: portentous

Synonyms

colossal, stupendous, exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing, portentous

Common word forms

prodigiously, prodigiousness

Words from these letters

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