Illimitable vs Prodigious - What's the difference?
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Illimitable is a related term of prodigious. As adjectives the difference between illimitable and prodigious is that illimitable is impervious to limitation, without limit while prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
illimitable English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Impervious to limitation, without limit.
* 1909 , Jack London,
- What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.
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Synonyms
* infinite
* limitless
* unlimited
Antonyms
* limitable
Derived terms
* illimitability
* illimitably
See also
* inimitable
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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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