When they are attached to other morphemes they change the meaning or the grammatical function of the word in some way, as just seen; when added to the beginning of a word or morphemes they are called prefixes, and when added to the end of a word or morpheme they are called suffixes.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Prodigious(adj) of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. 2  Prodigious(adj) extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
In the ancient world tragedy contained and was nourished by the âreligious sense,â that is to say, by the elements of piety and humility, by an intuitive veneration of âthe idea of the holy,â of the sacred logos as opposed to the profane impulse, by an intuitive pull towards the transcendent as opposed to the present and the nominal.