Prodigiously
adv
adv ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a prodigious manner; astonishingly, enormously, impressively, wonderfully.
"[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."
Adverb
- 1 to a prodigious degree wordnet
Example
More examples"The honest Benignus loved life extraordinarily, but he loved gold prodigiously."
Etymology
From prodigious + -ly.
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