prodigiously

English

Etymology

prodigious +‎ -ly

Adverb

prodigiously (comparative more prodigiously, superlative most prodigiously)

  1. In a prodigious manner; enormously, wonderfully, astonishingly or impressively.
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 34:
      The Dashwoods were so prodigiously delighted with the Middletons, that, though not much in the habit of giving any thing, they determined to give them—a dinner; [...]
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