Synonyms

1. portentous

Sentence Examples

1. At this instant they struck the awning and lowered the yard with a prodigious rattle.
2. In this way he acquired a prodigious name and all ran after him on other occasions, being very crafty, he would answer in such a way that the answers suited the questions and as no one cross-questioned him or pressed him to tell how his ape divined, he made fools of them all and filled his pouch.
3. Following these came a personage of gigantic stature enveloped rather than clad in a gown of the deepest black, the skirt of which was of prodigious dimensions.
4. It must, however, have been no inconsiderable time, for when I partially recovered the sense of existence, I found the day breaking, the balloon at a prodigious height over a wilderness of ocean, and not a trace of land to be discovered far and wide within the limits of the vast horizon.
5. I did not at first know what to make of this extraordinary phenomenon not being able to believe that my rate of ascent had, of a sudden, met with so prodigious an acceleration.
6. Drawing now my body upwards, with a prodigious exertion of muscular force, I succeeded, at the very first trial, in throwing the buckle over the car, and entangling it, as I had anticipated, in the circular rim of the wicker-work.
7. The gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity, the wild ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these mammalia are sufficiently well known to all.
8. How can there be any human understanding that can persuade itself there ever was all that infinity of Amadises in the world, or all that multitude of famous knights, all those emperors of Trebizond, all those Felixmartes of Hircania, all those palfreys, and damsels-errant, and serpents, and monsters, and giants, and marvellous adventures, and enchantments of every kind, and battles, and prodigious encounters, splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires made counts, droll dwarfs, love letters, billings and cooings, swashbuckler women, and, in a word, all that nonsense the books of chivalry contain?
9. It may be observed, in passing, that this prodigious glass is said to have been molded at the glasshouse of Messrs.
10. For a twelve-year-old, Lavern not only had prodigious drawing and painting and archery skills, but a very level head on his shoulders.