HUMDINGER Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

humdinger

noun

ˈhəm-ˈdiŋ-ər

Definition of humdinger

as in dream

something very good of its kind the concert concluded with a humdinger of a fireworks display

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Recent Examples of humdinger The latest private-members country club to have opened in Oxfordshire, wrapped in a Jacobethan hall with parkland, is a humdinger with an instant cachet. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026 For the anti-capitalist cognoscenti, McKenzie’s press tour for Everyone Is Lying to You for Money has been a real humdinger. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026 The resolute tango between the personal and the practical is a hallmark of a cookbook humdinger. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 5 Mar. 2026 But this $12-a-year deal is a humdinger from Black Friday that's still active. — Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 16 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for humdinger

Recent Examples of Synonyms for humdinger

Noun

Friends, relatives, and loyal customers kept their dream alive as the business grew.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2026
She's worked for the air ambulance service for seven years and still calls it a dream job.

— Elaine Appleton-Grant, NPR, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of dream

Noun

The model for the painting (disputed by some historians) was allegedly Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo), a renowned beauty in Florentine high society whom Botticelli greatly admired.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
The company additionally toyed with the beauty category via collaborations, the latest of which launched with K-beauty brand Amuse earlier this year.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of beauty

Noun

Now, Van Hollen is prone these days to simply grandstand and genuflect to all things partisan and hyper-fringe-left, but this one was a doozy even by his endless willingness to spout falsehoods.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2026
The lawyers’ case this week is a doozy, involving a chatbot who may or may not have convinced a teenager to stab his father 44 times.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of doozy

Noun

Of course all the business between Patricia and the Boogeyman is just an excuse for Widow’s Bay to stage a corker of a send-up of 1978’s Halloween and slasher movies of its ilk.

— Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 June 2026
The breakfast buffet is supremely surreal A big part of every season of The White Lotus is the breakfast buffet, and the Martinez’s daily extravaganza is a corker.

— Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of corker

Noun

The kick stage is somewhat of an engineering marvel in itself.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
There's no shortage of modern marvels and breathtaking landscapes to behold in the US, which leads us to ask, how does a destination gain recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

— Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of marvel

Noun

Most of the cases his office examined involved ordinary objects or phenomena that sensors were not designed to recognize.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which can exploit phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform certain calculations in fundamentally different ways.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of phenomenon

Noun

In our opinion, this beaut will play nice with all sorts of denim, contrasting cashmere layers, and your comfiest sweatsuit for model-off-duty moments.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Marty Brown 5-yard run after two beauts from Darian Mensah to Malachi Toney on an eight-play, 89-yard drive.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

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