Synonyms
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- galactic
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
Examples of whopping in a Sentence
The play was a whopping success.
The car sped by at a whopping 110 miles per hour.
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Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
The largest suite will measure a whopping 2,400 square feet.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 23 Jan. 2025
Rocky Mount got 3 inches, and Kill Devil Hills got a whopping 9 inches.
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—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
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Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
The largest suite will measure a whopping 2,400 square feet.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 23 Jan. 2025
Rocky Mount got 3 inches, and Kill Devil Hills got a whopping 9 inches.
—Lucille Sherman, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
If reports that his settlement stretched into eight figures are true then Harry will have simultaneously swerved £10 million costs while gaining a payment of around another £10 million, leaving him up a whopping £20 million.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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whopping
adjective
whop·ping
ˈhwäp-iŋ 
ˈwäp-
: extremely large
got a whopping increase in his allowance
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