PRODIGIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prodigiously mean? 

• PRODIGIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb PRODIGIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. to a prodigious degree

  Familiarity information: PRODIGIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRODIGIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a prodigious degree

Context example:

the prices of farms rose prodigiously

Pertainym:

prodigious (far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree)

 Context examples 

I am prodigiously proud of him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They are prodigiously nimble from their infancy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They limited the man at his meals, but still his girth increased and he swelled prodigiously under his shirt.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him that, I tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He wrote prodigiously, and he read prodigiously, forgetting in his toil the pangs caused by giving up his tobacco.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But if they could fast prodigiously, they could feed prodigiously, and soon a few scattered bones were all that remained of the splendid live brute that had faced the pack a few hours before.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very earnestly at the ladies who entered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny could read, work, and write, but she had been taught nothing more; and as her cousins found her ignorant of many things with which they had been long familiar, they thought her prodigiously stupid, and for the first two or three weeks were continually bringing some fresh report of it into the drawing-room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Dashwoods were so prodigiously delighted with the Middletons, that, though not much in the habit of giving anything, they determined to give them—a dinner; and soon after their acquaintance began, invited them to dine in Harley Street, where they had taken a very good house for three months.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I do think Mrs. Long is as good a creature as ever lived—and her nieces are very pretty behaved girls, and not at all handsome: I like them prodigiously.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)