prodigiously
2
7.7
- adverb
- /prəˈdɪdʒəsli/
:
prodigiosamente
- 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
350
1.0
By a very large amount
184
3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
172
2.8
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
137
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
129
3.1
To a very large degree
128
3.5
To a very large degree
111
1.0
In a very good and impressive way
103
3.0
By a very large amount
101
3.5
In a way that is especially clear or important
84
2.1
To a very great degree
80
4.1
To a much higher level than usual
57
4.6
To a very great degree
28
4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
26
4.5
To a very high degree
21
3.5
To a very great degree
21
4.0
In a way that makes people very surprised
17
5.2
To a very great degree
15
4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
15
4.6
In a very impressive and beautiful way
12
3.6
To a very high degree
12
3.9
In a way that impresses people very much
11
4.6
In a very impressive way
8
4.4
Says that something is extremely large, important, or impressive
8
4.2
In a very beautiful or amazing way
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
7
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
6
4.3
Making people feel very surprised
3
5.8
To a very large degree
3
6.6
In a very impressive or grand way that seems heroic
3
6.8
In a very beautiful and impressive way that amazes people
3
4.7
In a very impressive way that makes people admire it
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
2
5.3
In a very bright and impressive way
2
6.7
In a way that makes people feel great surprise and admiration
1
4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
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
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.