Illimitable vs Prodigious - What's the difference?
illimitable | prodigious | Related terms |
Impervious to limitation, without limit.
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Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
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, 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
As adjectives the difference between illimitable and prodigious
is that illimitable is impervious to limitation, without limit while prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.illimitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.