prodigiously
/pɹoʊdˈɪdʒɪsli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a prodigious manner; astonishingly, enormously, impressively, wonderfully.
Example Sentences
- "[T]he Mercers encreaſing prodigiouſly vvent back into the City; there like Bees unhiv'd they hover about a vvhile, not knovving vvhere to fix; but at laſt, as if they vvould come back to the old Hive in Pater-noſter Rovv, but could not be admitted, the ſvvarm ſettled on Lu[d]gate-hill."
- "The Dashwoods were so prodigiously delighted with the Middletons, that, though not much in the habit of giving any thing, they determined to give them—a dinner; […]"
- "Pendennis the elder, who like a real man of the world had a proper and constant dread of the opinion of his neighbour, was prodigiously annoyed by the absurd little tempest which was blowing in Chatteris, and tossing about Master Pen’s reputation."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin prōdigiōsusbor. Middle English prodigious English prodigious Middle English -ly English -ly English prodigiously From prodigious + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more prodigiously (comparative)
most prodigiously (superlative)