Synonyms of whopping
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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Last year alone, phony jobs and employment scams cost Americans a whopping $630 million.
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Tim McNicholas, CBS News, 12 May 2026
The movie earned a dazzling $97 million domestically in its first weekend, giving it the biggest-ever opening for a biopic, and has grossed a whopping $577 million worldwide in just two weeks time.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
Coming in at a whopping $500 fine, parking a boat, motor home, truck camper or vending cart for over 15 days is tied with on-street parking of truck tractors or semitrailers for the highest parking violation fines in the city.
—Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Hardest hit last week – though not by the Tonys – was Chicago, which dropped a whopping $1,131,898 in its first week since Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt and her Dancing With The Stars partner Mark Ballas left the show.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 May 2026
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Tim McNicholas, CBS News, 12 May 2026
The movie earned a dazzling $97 million domestically in its first weekend, giving it the biggest-ever opening for a biopic, and has grossed a whopping $577 million worldwide in just two weeks time.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
Coming in at a whopping $500 fine, parking a boat, motor home, truck camper or vending cart for over 15 days is tied with on-street parking of truck tractors or semitrailers for the highest parking violation fines in the city.
—Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Hardest hit last week – though not by the Tonys – was Chicago, which dropped a whopping $1,131,898 in its first week since Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt and her Dancing With The Stars partner Mark Ballas left the show.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 May 2026
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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whopping
adjective
whop·ping
ˈhwäp-iŋ 
ˈwäp-
: extremely large
got a whopping increase in his allowance
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