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prodigiously

adv

Etymology

From prodigious + -ly.

  1. derived from *h₁eǵ-✻ — “to say”
  2. derived from prōdigiōsus — “strange, unnatural; marvellous, wonderful, prodigious”
  3. inherited from prodigious — “warning of disaster, portentous”
  4. formed as prodigiously — “prodigious + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a prodigious manner

    In a prodigious manner; astonishingly, enormously, impressively, wonderfully.

    • 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; […]

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No curated loop yet for prodigiously. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA