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PRODIGIOUS

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prodigious adjectiv

1. (înv.) de rău augur, rău prevestitor.

2. prodigios, uimitor, minunat, extraordinar;

it is smth. prodigious e un prodigiu.

3. peste măsură de mare, colosal, imens, enorm, uriaş, grozav, straşnic, teribil.

4. monstruos.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I asked, “whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Prodigious memory.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not from her own observation help thinking that they might have gone with very little inconvenience.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Then I descended from the side of the coach, as the calèche was close alongside, the driver helping me with a hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel; his strength must have been prodigious.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He desired I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me; for probably I might carry about me several weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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