Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Prodigality (n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.

(1) - Prodigally (adv.) In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated.

(1) - Prodigious (a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
(2) - Prodigious (a.) Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.

(1) - Prodigiously (adv.) Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased.
(2) - Prodigiously (adv.) Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.

(1) - Prodigiousness (n.) The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.