(n.) Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
(n.) Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.
(n.) A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(2) Although a weak correlation between urinary calcium excretion and stone number was observed, the cause for prodigious stone formation could not be explained.
(3) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
(4) Jack Charlton, maintaining the remarkable standard of his World Cup performances, had to intervene with a prodigious sweeping tackle on the ground to get them out of trouble.
(5) The periplasmic C proteins (C1 and C2 isoelectric forms) were produced in prodigious quantities from the cloned strains.
(6) Rivals and analysts underestimated his single-minded determination and prodigious work ethic, and overlooked an unofficial campaign that began years before his name went on the ballot papers for the second time.
(7) He kept up a prodigious work rate even when ill. At the height of his activity he was simultaneously writing about politics, wine and television as well as radio programmes, a weekly diary and a stream of books.
(8) Winner of the National Book Award in 1993, Vidal's literary output was prodigious, with more than 20 novels, including the transsexual satire Myra Breckinridge, the black comedy Duluth, and a series of historical fiction charting the history of the United States.
(9) It is suggested that in its myriad roles, ranging from cooking to the prodigious function of sacrifice in human history and psychology, the decisive position of the role of fire in the emergence and development of homo sapiens may conceivably include a significant "overdetermining" position among the multiple elements conditioning the appearance of human speech and language.
(10) They were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and their workload was prodigious.
(11) The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup was founded by former child chess prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis alongside Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.
(12) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(13) Its prodigious collection of print, audiovisual, and electronic information; its imaginative research projects; its excellent outreach program; and its innovative services and products are indispensable to all practicing health professionals, scientists, and medical educators, as well as to journalists, government officials, and others.
(14) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(15) The oral cavity is populated by a prodigious microbial flora that exhibits a unique successional colonization of enamel and subgingival root surfaces.
(16) The only greenery more impressive than the massive trees are the prodigious mosses and lichens hanging from every branch.
(17) Bilic’s side were the more threatening team as the first half wore on and their prodigious work-rate, typified by Mark Noble chasing down a lost cause and winning a corner from James Milner, was impressive.
(18) But Google's acquisition of DeepMind Technologies earlier this year, founded by a former child chess prodigy only two years ago, will be followed by more big-money transactions involving home-grown tech companies.
(19) But the Brits announcement has not come in isolation; it follows the collapse in the last two years of three dance music magazines (Muzik, Ministry and Jockey Slut), the news that London superclub Ministry of Sound's revenues have fallen by more than a third since 2001, and, most recently, the commercial failure of the latest albums from Britain's two biggest dance acts, Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy.
(20) Freud is notable not only for his prodigious output - at any one time he will be at work on five or six paintings and, perhaps, an etching - but for the intense way in which he scrutinises his subjects (he is adamant that they 'affect the air around them', so his sitters must be present even when only the background is being painted).
Wunderkind
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
(2) Perhaps the most sensational competition debut is the 25-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan with his black-comedy-cum-Oedipal heartbreaker Mommy .
(3) Juve replied with a brace of their own, both by the man who would become Ranieri's predecessor at Chelsea, Vialli, then an unforgettable late winner from a teenaged wunderkind called Del Piero.
(4) He has also worked for several long-established companies (Monte-Carlo Ballet, Geneva Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Cullberg Ballet in Sweden, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York); as well as in several duets – Zero Degrees (2005) with British-Bengali wunderkind Akram Khan , Dunas (2009) with flamenco dancer María Pagés , and Play (2009) with Paris-based Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa .
(5) Andy Hornby Photograph: Getty Images Andy Hornby, former HBOS boss The former wunderkind of British business who came top of his 800-strong class at Harvard and rose to become a board director of Asda by the age of 32 was the man running HBOS when it had to be rescued by Lloyds.
(6) Later, as the packed room erupted over Nigerian wunderkind WizKid's Azonto Freestyle.
(7) After saying that there would be an announcement on Monday, Solskjaer suddenly reappeared and produced Mats Moller Daehli, an 18-year-old Norwegian wunderkind from the manager's old club, Molde.
(8) Not that anyone seemed to have told Ben Barry , the wunderkind who started his own model agency at the age of 16, who for reasons best known to himself chose to deliver a Harvard Business School first-year PowerPoint lecture on fashion marketing.
(9) You see, despite the glowing reports that regularly appear in the international media featuring Iceland as some kind of "economic recovery wunderkind" – which are usually grossly exaggerated – the present government has failed to live up to expectations.
(10) Is there a more remarkable wunderkind at Cannes 2014 than the 25-year-old Québécois Xavier Dolan, making his competition debut with Mommy, his fifth feature film as director.
(11) While Thompson appears to have been the technical wunderkind of the Derp operation, the group is still active.
(12) The screen adaptation , however, finessed its narrative problems and begat a sleek and vividly thrilling movie from the then unknown wunderkind Steven Spielberg.
(13) NEXT WEEK Discovering just what happened to Ajax's English wunderkind, Sonny Pike, and the player who has played for clubs in six capital cities.
(14) His latest single, Wavvy , has received Twitter love from the likes of Grimes and Devonté Hynes, and his upcoming mixtape has been produced by current wunderkinds Brenmar and Nguzunguzu among others.
(15) Consider, for instance, last week's excited headlines over the fact that American venture capitalists had invested $50m in Buzzfeed , the wunderkind of website growth (currently claimed at 75% a year).
(16) A marketing wunderkinds slant on the Easter egg, the Kinder Surprise is often placed strategically in check outs within toddler reach, and the attraction more often lies with the plastic toy inside it, rather than the promised calcium-rich chocolate hit.
(17) No whiff of misdemeanour ever attached itself, however, to the other rising stars, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Helen Whately, Jeremy Brier, Mark Clarke – all young, all described as wunderkinder , all brought in as part of this Milk Tray advert politics (in fairness, Blair started it) where a fit person, in black, is held to be capable of anything.
(18) First, there was the wunderkind author of Goodbye, Columbus (1959), a landmark postwar debut.
(19) As copies of the original go, this stuff's almost as faithful as Faithful , that 1976 album by Todd Rundgren – a favourite, incidentally, of Tame Impala, and the feeling's mutual – wherein the skinny 70s wunderkind reworked psych-era classics including the Fabs' Rain and Strawberry Fields Forever .
(20) He isn’t Hillary Clinton , gritting painfully through every interaction with a voter or a reporter, but nor is he some sort of retail wunderkind like Bill Clinton who feeds off of human interaction.