adjective
- So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe.
- usage: "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"
- synonyms: colossal, stupendous
- Of momentous or ominous significance.
- usage: "such a portentous... Monster raised all my curiosity- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- synonyms: portentous
- Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree.
- usage: "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
- synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing
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