prodigious
pruh-DIJ-usadjMeaning remarkably large or impressive
Memory hook PRODIGY-ous: a wonder of a size. Professor Edwin’s books are stacked from the floor to the ceiling, so he needs a ladder to reach the top. His library is prodigious.
Professor Edwin owns a prodigious library, with books stacked to the ceiling.
In context The young violinist had a prodigious memory: she could hear a long piece once and play it back the next day without a single wrong note.
Similar huge, enormous, vast, remarkable
Opposite tiny, ordinary, unremarkable
From Latin prodigiosus, “wondrous,” from prodigium, “a wonder, an omen,” the source of prodigy.