Prodigious vs Modicum - What's the difference?
prodigious | modicum |
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 small, modest or trifling amount.
As an adjective prodigious
is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.As a noun modicum is
a small, modest or trifling amount.prodigious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* gigantic, colossal, huge, enormous; See also * amazing * ominous, portentousDerived terms
* prodigiouslyExternal links
* * *modicum
English
Noun
(modica)- Unable to garner even a modicum of support for his plan, he conceded to follow the others.