Prodigious vs Copious - What's the difference?
prodigious | copious |
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
Great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3. ยง 18.
Having an abundant supply.
Full of thought, information, or matter; exuberant in words, expression, or style.
As adjectives the difference between prodigious and copious
is that prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge while copious is great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.prodigious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* gigantic, colossal, huge, enormous; See also * amazing * ominous, portentousDerived terms
* prodigiouslyExternal links
* * *copious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These loose hints I have thrown together, in order to excite the curiosity of philosophers, and beget a suspicion at least, if not a full persuasion, that this subject is very copious ,