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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Foreign shipments rose 4% to 8.4 million metric tons as exports to China jumped a whopping 46% to 7.6 million metric tons while domestic shipments climbed 4% to 8.0 million metric tons as sales to local cement producers and power plants increased, Semirara said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Ian Sayson, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The lineup of Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby and Karl-Anthony Towns had played a whopping 666 minutes together entering Monday’s game.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
The nail market reached a whopping $10 billion then, even at a time when people were cutting back on spending.
—Katie McBroom, WWD, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ian Sayson, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The lineup of Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby and Karl-Anthony Towns had played a whopping 666 minutes together entering Monday’s game.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
The nail market reached a whopping $10 billion then, even at a time when people were cutting back on spending.
—Katie McBroom, WWD, 14 Jan. 2025
For a limited time, new subscribers get a whopping 60% off RoboForm Premium for the first year, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
—Advertising Content From Roboform, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 22 Jan. 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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