• IPA: /pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/

prodigious

1. Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352 ↗:

     Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!

2. Extraordinarily exciting or amazing.
3. (obsolete) Ominous, portentous.
4. Monstrous; freakish.

• gigantic, colossal, huge, enormous; See also Thesaurus:gigantic
• amazing
• ominous, portentous

• German: ungeheuer, gewaltig
• Russian: чрезме́рный

• French: prodigieux
• German: verwunderlich
• Russian: умопомрачи́тельный