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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Investigators uncovered a whopping 40,000 phishing domains being operated by as many as 10,000 users worldwide, Europol says.
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Dell Cameron Andrew Couts, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
Google alone released a whopping 18 foundation models in 2023.
—Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
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Dell Cameron Andrew Couts, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
Google alone released a whopping 18 foundation models in 2023.
—Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for whopping
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 4 May. 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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