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PRODIGIOUSLY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
the prices of farms rose prodigiously
Classified under:
Pertainym:
prodigious (far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree)
Context examples:
She is a very fine-looking woman! and her calling here was prodigiously civil! for she only came, I suppose, to tell us the Collinses were well.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)