prodigiously
2
7.7
- adverb
- /prəˈdɪdʒəsli/
- One-celled creatures divided prodigiously, without planning or intent, experimenting with new ways of living.
Examples
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The artist was prodigiously talented, impressing everyone with her stunning paintings.
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Everywhere, steam engines are prodigiously multiplied.
Academic text (2018) -
Both Georgia cotton production and his nuclear family grew prodigiously as the new century progressed.
Academic text (2011) -
"My point is that meeting Cam is going to be prodigiously difficult," Gina said.
Fiction book (2002) -
During these years she wrote prodigiously, including A Woman of Genius (1912), one of three feminist novels.
Fiction book (1996) -
The authors, composers, painters, and sculptors of the post-1400 West were, as a rule, prodigiously productive.
Academic text (2003) -
From then onward, he worked steadily and prodigiously on bringing some fundamental change to his life, on making his lifelong dream come true, but he concealed it as best he could, and others often found his actions puzzling.
Fiction book (1998) -
Hokusai, already well established as a prodigiously gifted artist, was competing with a conventional brush-stroke painter in a face-off judged by the shogun personally.
Academic text (2012) -
He had a prodigiously large library filled with thousands of books on various subjects.
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The athlete trained prodigiously hard, dedicating hours each day to improve his skills.
Synonyms
312
1.0
By a very large amount
165
3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
131
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
112
3.1
To a very large degree
107
3.5
To a very large degree
101
1.0
In a very good and impressive way
97
3.0
By a very large amount
96
3.5
In a way that is especially clear or important
92
2.1
To a very great degree
73
4.1
To a much higher level than usual
54
4.6
To a very great degree
30
2.8
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
28
4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
25
4.5
To a very high degree
20
4.0
In a way that makes people very surprised
18
3.5
To a very great degree
16
5.2
To a very great degree
15
4.6
In a very impressive and beautiful way
14
4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
12
3.6
To a very high degree
11
4.6
In a very impressive way
11
3.9
In a way that impresses people very much
8
4.4
Says that something is extremely large, important, or impressive
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
7
4.2
In a very beautiful or amazing way
6
4.3
Making people feel very surprised
6
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
3
5.8
To a very large degree
3
6.8
In a very beautiful and impressive way that amazes people
3
6.6
In a very impressive or grand way that seems heroic
3
6.7
In a way that makes people feel great surprise and admiration
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
2
5.3
In a very bright and impressive way
1
4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
1
4.7
In a very impressive way that makes people admire it
1
7.6
By a very large amount that cannot be measured
1
8.4
To a very high degree
1
6.4
To a very great degree used to show strong feeling
1
7.4
In a way that makes something look very tall or impressive
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
prodigiously = prodigious (transparent) = prodigious + ly
Standard adverb formation by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'prodigious', yielding 'in a prodigious manner'.
Etymology
Prodigiously comes from the same word as prodigy and the Latin prodigium, which meant 'a wonder' or 'an amazing sign'. So, to do something prodigiously is to do it in a wonderfully large or extraordinary way.