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Prodigious vs Hulking - What's the difference?

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Prodigious is a related term of hulking.


As adjectives the difference between prodigious and hulking

is that prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge while hulking is large and bulky.

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

    hulking

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Large and bulky.
  • (man) Tall and heavily built.
  • Unwieldy.
  • Quotations

    * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 212 *: A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.