whopping
adjective [before noun] /ˈwɒp.ɪŋ/
/ˈwɑː.pɪŋ/ (also whopping great) informalDefinition
› extremely large: She had a whopping great bruise on her arm. a whopping 35 percent pay rise a whopping lieEnormousBig and quite big
(Definition of whopping adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty adjective (BIG)
- astronomical adjective (LARGE)
- astronomically adverb (LARGE)
- behemoth noun
- gigantic adjective
- ginormous adjective
- huge adjective
- humungous adjective
- immeasurable adjective
- monumental adjective
- mountainous adjective
- off the charts idiom
- oversize adjective
- overwhelming adjective
- precipitous adjective
- prodigious adjective
- thumping adjective
- walloping adjective
- yawning adjective
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