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# prodigious

«prodigious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very large, great or amazing in size, strength or amount** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Very large, great or amazing in size, strength or amount. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prodigious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a giant strength, a huge speed, or a great burst of joy

### examples

- The hero had prodigious strength. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prodigious/#x1)
- The bird's song was prodigious and loud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prodigious/#x2)
- He ran at a prodigious speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prodigious/#x3)

### note

a prodigious amount is large but gives no exact number, so it does not fix a count in a problem.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prodigious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prodigious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.