Meaning and example
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
Colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.463 places prodigious in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 93.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 93.3%
a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- Known by
- 93.3%
systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- Known by
- 93.3%
incapable of being placated
- Known by
- 93.3%
an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
- Known by
- 93.2%
deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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