different between considerable vs prodigious

English

Etymology

From consider +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?d???bl?/, /k?n?s?d??bl?/
• Hyphenation: con?sid?er?able, con?side?rable

Adjective

considerable (comparative more considerable, superlative most considerable)

1. Significant; worth considering.

2. Large in amount.

Antonyms

• ignorable
• negligible

Related terms

• consider
• considerably

Translations

Noun

considerable (plural considerables)

1. (obsolete) A thing to be considered, consideration.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9,^[2]

     Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]

Catalan

Etymology

From considerar +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kon.si.d???a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.si.d???a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.si.de??a.ble/
• Rhymes: -a?le

Adjective

considerable (masculine and feminine plural considerables)

1. considerable (large, substantial)

   El mes de febrer de 1888, doncs, Eduard Toda ja ha reunit un fons bibliogràfic de valor considerable.

Derived terms

• considerablement

Further reading

• “considerable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “considerable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “considerable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “considerable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

From considerar +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konside??able/, [kõn.si.ð?e??a.??le]

Adjective

considerable (plural considerables)

1. considerable (significant)

   Synonyms: notable, significativo

2. considerable (large in amount)

Derived terms

• considerablemente

Further reading

• “considerable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle French prodigieux, from Latin pr?digi?sus (“unnatural, strange, wonderful, marvelous”), from pr?digium (“an omen, portent, monster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?d???s/
• Rhymes: -?d??s

Adjective

prodigious (comparative more prodigious, superlative most prodigious)

1. Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
2. Extraordinarily exciting or amazing.
3. (obsolete) Ominous, portentous.
4. Monstrous; freakish.

Synonyms

• gigantic, colossal, huge, enormous; See also Thesaurus:gigantic
• amazing
• ominous, portentous

Derived terms

• prodigiously

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• prodigious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prodigious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• prodigious at OneLook Dictionary Search