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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 of whopping from the Web
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There are a whopping eight Republicans on the ballot too, and no clear winner among the pack.
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Chinese tourism to Dubai saw a whopping 46% growth in 2017, and Indian travelers nearly hit 2 million.
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For example, the first-generation Asus NovaGo ACPC using the Snapdragon 835 yielded a whopping 17 hours, 22 minutes of battery life in our tests.
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Obama granted official mercy to 1,927, and that was down from Franklin Roosevelt’s (the longest-serving president) whopping 3,687 pardons and commutations.
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Michele designed a whopping 114 looks for the show.
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In that effort, the office created a map that shows the full extent of areas simultaneously claimed by both the state and private individuals: a whopping 700,000 acres, or about 1,000 square miles, according to a 2018 Louisiana Sea Grant report.
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There is a whopping 25 for winning the regular-season championship.
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Fluid situation: The Brewers have made 45 roster moves and counting so far this month, including a whopping 10 in the Mets series alone after swapping out Houser for Barnes earlier Sunday.
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First Known Use of whopping
circa 1625
whopping Synonyms
Synonyms
astronomical (also astronomic), bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, planetary, prodigious, super, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking;
Antonyms
bantam, bitty, diminutive, infinitesimal, little bitty, micro, microminiature, microscopic (also microscopical), midget, miniature, minuscule, minute, pocket, pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee;
Near Antonyms
little, mini, petite, pint-size (or pint-sized), puny, small, smallish, undersized (also undersize);
Related Words
big, bulky, considerable, extensive, good, goodly, great, gross, handsome, hefty, hulking, largish, major, outsize (also outsized), overgrown, oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy, voluminous;
august, formidable, grandiose, imposing, lofty, majestic;
cavernous, monolithic, overwhelming, staggering, stupendous, towering;
WHOPPING Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of whopping for English Language Learners
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: very large, impressive, etc.
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