prodigious

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

Synonyms

colossal stupendous portentous exceeding exceptional surpassing olympian

Words of close approximity

prodigiously