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.
Recent Examples on the Web
However, he's only raised $106,000, a figure dwarfed by restaurateur Flemming Larsen, a GOP rival who has brought in a whopping $1.8 million thanks to $1.5 million in self-funding.
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Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 June 2024
Additionally, a whopping 3,000+ shoppers have added it to their carts within the past month.
—Averi Baudler, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
The show had a whopping 324 episodes during its original run from 2005 to 2020 — and that’s to say nothing of the recent revival, Criminal Minds: Evolution, which kicks off its second season (and 17th overall) in June 2024.
—EW.com, 6 June 2024
The gas giant Jupiter is a whopping 452 million miles away from Earth and more than 11 times bigger, but is similar in at least one way.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
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Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 June 2024
Additionally, a whopping 3,000+ shoppers have added it to their carts within the past month.
—Averi Baudler, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
The show had a whopping 324 episodes during its original run from 2005 to 2020 — and that’s to say nothing of the recent revival, Criminal Minds: Evolution, which kicks off its second season (and 17th overall) in June 2024.
—EW.com, 6 June 2024
The gas giant Jupiter is a whopping 452 million miles away from Earth and more than 11 times bigger, but is similar in at least one way.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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whopping
adjective
whop·ping
ˈhwäp-iŋ 
ˈwäp-
: extremely large
got a whopping increase in his allowance
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