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Burgeoning vs Prodigious - What's the difference?

burgeoning | prodigious |

As adjectives the difference between burgeoning and prodigious

is that burgeoning is that buds, grows or expands; developing while prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.

As a verb burgeoning

is .

As a noun burgeoning

is the act of budding or sprouting.

burgeoning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of budding or sprouting
  • a bud or branch
  • (by extension) a new growth or expansion of something

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that buds, grows or expands; developing

    • prodigious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!}}
  • extraordinarily exciting or amazing
  • (obsolete) ominous, portentous

    • Synonyms

    * gigantic, colossal, huge, enormous; See also * amazing * ominous, portentous

    Derived terms

    * prodigiously

    Related terms

    * prodigy

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