prodigious
/pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/ adjective C2- Extraordinarily amazing.
- In a positive sense: marvellous, wonderful; (specifically) extremely talented, especially at a young age.
- In a negative sense: appalling, horrifying, shocking; (specifically, archaic) abnormal, freakish, monstrous, unnatural.
- Very big in extent, quantity, or size; abundant; intense; colossal, huge.
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Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him.”
Dantès possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.
These last words produced a prodigious effect on the seaman.
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