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prodigious

/pruh-dij-uhs/US // prəˈdɪdʒ əs //UK // (prəˈdɪdʒəs) //

惊人的,巨大的,令人惊叹的,神奇的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
    • : wonderful or marvelous: a prodigious feat.
    • : abnormal; monstrous.
    • : Obsolete. ominous.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.huge, enormous
adj.extraordinary, fabulous

Examples

  • The former governor, who served from 2014 to 2018, has long been a prodigious Democratic fundraiser, but Youngkin’s personal wealth and willingness to spend his own money could make this year’s race the most expensive in Virginia history.

  • Up to this point, Thiel was one of the few Americans who had managed to amass prodigious Roth accounts.

  • In all other ways, she’s largely performing as she did last season, which is remarkable from a raw production rate, given that she once again shares the frontcourt with the prodigious talents of Liz Cambage.

  • The biological sciences require both a grasp of critical organizing concepts and the mastery of prodigious amounts of specific details within each domain and sub-discipline.

  • In the courtroom, he fascinated the public with his cool, pointed oratory and prodigious memory, as well as his relentlessness.

  • No biography of Jack Nicholson could long skirt the issue of his prodigious appetites.

  • Indeed, after going to his reward, he has been publishing at a prodigious pace.

  • Couple with its prodigious online presence, it has become a global brand to be reckoned with.

  • He knows better than anyone the law of carnage and its prodigious repetitions in our time.

  • That would be quite a bombshell indeed—not to mention a prodigious technical feat.

  • I asked whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air about the time he first discovered me?

  • He was six feet ten inches in height, and his strength is represented to have been prodigious.

  • The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.

  • He has evidently some prodigious secret, which he is determined to envelope in still deeper secrecy.

  • He fancied that he could see it, even at this distance, and another of his prodigious sighs issued from his lips.