Prodigious vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
prodigious | foreboding |
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
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
As adjectives the difference between prodigious and foreboding
is that prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge while foreboding is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.As a noun foreboding is
a sense of evil to come.As a verb foreboding is
.prodigious
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* gigantic, colossal, huge, enormous; See also * amazing * ominous, portentousDerived terms
* prodigiouslyExternal links
* * *foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.