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Prodigious vs Countless - What's the difference?

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Prodigious is a related term of countless.


As adjectives the difference between prodigious and countless

is that prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge while countless is too many to count; innumerable or incalculable.

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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    countless

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Too many to count; innumerable or incalculable
    • There is a countless number of stars