prodigious

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Extraordinarily amazing.

   “VVhat am I? Old! or a Monſter! Is it ſo prodigious, that a Man ſhou'd like me?”

2. sıfat In a positive sense: marvellous, wonderful; (specifically) extremely talented, especially at a young age.

   “Iohn Ponce aforeſaid [i.e., Juan Ponce de León] hearing a rumour of a prodigious vvell, vvhich (as the Poets tell of Medea) vvould make olde men become young againe, plaid the yongling to goe ſearch it ſix monethes together, and in that inquirie diſcouers this Continent: […]”

3. sıfat In a negative sense: appalling, horrifying, shocking; (specifically, archaic) abnormal, freakish, monstrous, unnatural.

   “[H]e [Thomas Arundell] by his euill counſaile and prodigious ſuggeſtions, craftilye circumuented the king, inducyng him to graunt his letters of pardon to a great traytour the Erle of Arondell his brother [Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel].”

4. sıfat Very big in extent, quantity, or size; abundant; intense; colossal, huge.

   “[T]he figges […] are a fruit for a king, anſvverable to the mightie, huge, and prodigious tree that beareth it.”

5. sıfat Having the nature of an omen or portent; ominous, portentous.

   “[T]he blots of natures hand / Shall not in their iſſue ſtand. / Neuer mole, hare-lippe, nor ſcarre, / Nor marke prodigious, ſuch as are / Deſpiſed in natiuitie, / Shall vpon their children be.”

6. zarf Synonym of prodigiously (“in a prodigious manner”).

   “I have fewer books than leisure to read them, and I have a prodigious big appetite.”