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improvident, reckless: If the government were less prodigal, it
would be possible to have a balanced budget. 2 generous,
bountiful, copious, profuse, bounteous, lavish, liberal,
luxuriant, sumptuous, abundant, abounding, rich, plentiful,
plenteous, superabundant, thriving, swarming, teeming: He was
prodigal of both compliments and criticism.
--n. 3 wastrel, spendthrift, profligate, squanderer, waster,
big spender: That prodigal went through his inheritance in less
than a year.
prodigality
n. 1 wastefulness, waste, extravagance, excess, excessiveness,
immoderation, intemperateness, wantonness, recklessness,
profligacy, improvidence, dissipation, squandering: Surely his
contemporaries must have condemned Shah Jehan's prodigality in
building the Taj Mahal. 2 lavishness, profuseness, luxury,
luxuriousness, luxuriance, abundance, plenty, bounty,
bountifulness, bounteousness, copiousness, profusion,
profuseness, sumptuousness, richness, plentifulness,
plenteousness, superabundance, exuberance: The prodigality of
Nature is unbounded.
prodigious
adj. 1 vast, immeasurable, colossal, enormous, huge, giant,
gigantic, immense, mammoth, monumental, tremendous, stupendous,
titanic, Brobdingnagian, gargantuan, Herculean, cyclopean,
leviathan, monstrous, extensive, Colloq US ginormous, humongous:
There is a prodigious amount of water vapour contained in a
cloudy sky. You may accuse her of being a workaholic, but
consider the prodigious amount she gets done in a day. 2
amazing, astonishing, astounding, startling, extraordinary,
exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, wondrous, fabulous,
miraculous, phenomenal, spectacular, fantastic, sensational,
unusual, staggering, striking, dumbfounding or dumfounding,
remarkable, noteworthy, notable, Colloq flabbergasting,
mind-boggling, mind-blowing: In those days, running a mile in
four minutes was considered a prodigious feat.
prodigy n. 1 (child or girl or boy) genius, wonder child, Wunderkind,
mastermind, talent, intellect, intellectual or mental giant,
wizard, virtuoso, Colloq brain, Einstein, whiz-kid or whizz-kid,
whiz or whizz, walking dictionary or encyclopedia or