prodigious
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Is prodigious a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic or obsolete) Having the nature of an omen or portent; ominous, portentous.Examples: "[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."; "[T]here happened a prodigious token to Denis tyrant of Sicilie [i.e., Dionysius I of Syracuse], vvhen hee vvas expelled and depoſed from that mightie ſtate of his, and this it vvas; The ſea vvater vvithin one day in the haven grevv to be freſh and ſvveet."Synonyms: foreboding, inauspicious, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrousarchaicobsolete
adv (English)
1. (archaic) Synonym of prodigiously (“in a prodigious manner”).Examples: "I have fewer books than leisure to read them, and I have a prodigious big appetite."Synonyms: prodigiouslyarchaic
Definition source: Wiktionary