Burgeon vs Prodigious - What's the difference?
burgeon | prodigious |
To grow or expand.
To swell to the point of bursting.
(archaic) Of plants, to bloom, bud.
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
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between burgeon and prodigious
is that burgeon is (obsolete) bud, sprout, shoot while prodigious is (obsolete) ominous, portentous.As a noun burgeon
is (obsolete) bud, sprout, shoot.As a verb burgeon
is to grow or expand.As an adjective prodigious is
very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.burgeon
English
Etymology
From (etyl) burjon, . Alternate etymology derives (etyl) (presumably from the down covering certain buds).Verb
(en verb)- Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.