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 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 Keep an eye on the docket with Lively’s own upcoming summary judgment submission sure to be a humdinger of its own too. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for humdinger

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Noun

Each vignette of time reveals how time, our upbringing, and even our individual dreams shape the path of our lives and who ultimately ends up beside us for the ride.

— Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
In childhood, in adulthood, in her old age, Evans was besotted by dreams, turbulent, awesome, pictorial dreams.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of dream

Noun

The beauty of the property itself affords endless opportunities to stop and admire, and provide context for the great artist's oeuvre.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2026
The Historic Festival brings together a diverse field of historic racing machines for a Labor Day Weekend celebration of speed, sound and beauty with classes that range from pre-war open-wheel cars to the sports and formula cars of the postwar era.

— Mark Maglio, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of beauty

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

Grounded in tragedy and yet evoking a consistent sense of wonder, the lady of the house looks less like a mirror for her husband than a magnifying glass held over his genius and grotesquerie.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
But most of all, wonder feels scarce because contemporary life has depleted the value of the moment.

— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of wonder

Noun

Here, age-old traditions fuse with contemporary flavors, archaeological marvels meet modernist museums, rugged peaks are juxtaposed against verdant plains, and stretches of sandy shorelines lead to charming inland villages.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
In 1959, Disneyland debuted an attraction that was, at the time, a technical and fantastical marvel.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of marvel

Noun

This cyclic climate phenomenon drives up temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, altering the world’s climate and weather patterns for months.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2026
The key to this illusion is a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity, which also first predicted the existence of gravitational waves.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of phenomenon

Noun

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
As of April the Four Seasons Hotels and Residences has officially planted its flag in Cartagena, and its debut is a beaut.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026

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