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Upswing vs Prodigious - What's the difference?

upswing | prodigious |

As a noun upswing

is an upward swing.

As an adjective prodigious is

very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.

upswing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an upward swing
  • (by extension) an upward trend or an increase in activity
  • :Newspapers reported an upswing in the company's sales last month.
  • Antonyms

    * downswing

    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