prodigious
adjective/prəˈdɪdʒəs/
/prəˈdɪdʒəs/
[usually before noun] (formal)- very large or powerful and causing surprise; impressive synonym colossal, enormous
- a prodigious achievement/memory/talent
- USB sticks can store prodigious amounts of information.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProdigious is used with these nouns:- memory
- output
- quantity
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘portentous’): from Latin prodigiosus, from prodigium ‘portent’.
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