As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
prodigiously
(adverb) to a prodigious degree; “the prices of farms rose prodigiously”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
prodigiously (comparative more prodigiously, superlative most prodigiously)
In a prodigious manner; enormously, wonderfully, astonishingly or impressively.
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*di"gious*ly, adv.
1. Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.
2. Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased. [Colloq.] Pope.
Pro*di"gious, a. Etym: [L. prodigiosus, fr. prodigium a prodigy; cf. F. prodigieux. See Prodigy.]
1. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. [Obs. or R.] Spenser. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Sir T. Browne.
2. Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder. "Prodigious might." Milton.
Syn.
– Huge; enormous; monstrous; portentous; marvelous; amazing; astonishing; extraordinary.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 January 2025
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.