Synonyms of walloping

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adjective

ˈwä-lə-piŋ 

as in colossal

unusually large

he needed help to mount such a walloping horse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• colossal
• huge
• gigantic
• massive
• giant
• tremendous
• vast
• enormous
• mammoth
• bumper
• monumental
• immense
• astronomical
• titanic
• monster
• mighty
• mountainous
• sizable
• monstrous
• grand
• whopping
• big
• elephantine
• mega
• gargantuan
• oceanic
• prodigious
• cosmic
• humongous
• jumbo
• planetary
• oversize
• heroic
• whacking
• great
• galactic
• super
• herculean
• substantial
• cyclopean
• considerable
• Brobdingnagian
• staggering
• Himalayan
• supersized
• leviathan
• king-size
• supersize
• handsome
• hefty
• imposing
• good
• majestic
• formidable
• super-duper
• pharaonic
• major
• vasty
• extensive
• outsize
• gross
• gigantesque
• goodly
• voluminous
• hulking
• tidy
• infinite
• towering
• overwhelming
• bulky
• cavernous
• monolithic
• stupendous
• grandiose
• overgrown
• lofty
• largish
• boundless
• august
• immeasurable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tiny
• microscopic
• miniature
• micro
• infinitesimal
• minuscule
• pocket
• diminutive
• teensy
• wee
• teeny
• Lilliputian
• minute
• bitty
• midget
• small
• pygmy
• little
• puny
• mini
• smallish
• little bitty
• petite
• bantam
• undersized
• teeny-weeny
• teensy-weensy
• half-pint
• dinky
• microminiature
• pint-size
• dwarfish

walloping

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noun

as in thrashing

Related Words

• thrashing
• hammering
• thumping
• pounding
• battering
• pummeling
• whipping
• drubbing
• beating
• mauling
• belting
• smashing
• pelting
• flogging
• attack
• assault
• socking
• buffeting
• bashing
• licking
• bludgeoning
• paddling
• cudgeling
• harm
• batting
• clubbing
• injury
• battery
• shock
• detriment
• onslaught
• threat
• damage
• hurt
• riot
• whaling
• frenzy
• tromping
• upheaval
• revolt
• impairment
• fury
• lacing
• turbulence
• rampage
• pommeling
• terror
• outrage
• paroxysm
• rupture
• outbreak
• rage
• tumult
• savagery
• storm
• uproar
• bulldozing
• brutality
• bullying
• barbarity
• browbeating
• crippling
• violence
• maiming
• hectoring
• foul play
• strong-arming
• mayhem
• mutilation
• force

Dissimilar Words

• pacifism
• nonviolence
• pacificism

walloping

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verb

present participle of wallop

1

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

walloped the branches of the pear tree with a stick in an effort to knock down some fruit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• licking
• lashing
• battering
• whipping
• beating
• thumping
• pelting
• hiding
• hitting
• slapping
• knocking
• punching
• attacking
• smashing
• slamming
• doing
• assaulting
• mauling
• pummeling
• spanking
• hammering
• batting
• whopping
• thrashing
• drubbing
• bludgeoning
• chopping
• belting
• smacking
• storming
• bashing
• buffeting
• whacking
• slogging
• flogging
• lathering
• whupping
• raiding
• paddling
• lambasting
• clubbing
• switching
• slating
• boxing
• fibbing
• currying
• punching out
• tanning
• working over
• socking
• swatting
• tromping
• wounding
• swiping
• belaboring
• clobbering
• threshing
• cracking
• pommeling
• whaling
• birching
• lacing
• roughing (up)
• thwacking
• basting
• rushing
• messing (up)
• strapping
• whomping
• assailing
• bunging up
• busting
• cuffing
• pasting
• clouting
• cudgeling
• lacerating
• beating up on
• besetting
• whamming
• flagellating
• descending (on or upon)
• caning
• jumping (on)
• laying on
• scourging
• mangling
• leathering
• pouncing (on or upon)
• pistol-whipping
• horsewhipping
• maiming
• goring
• lamming
• mutilating
• blackjacking
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• fustigating

2

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin

walloped their traditional rivals 20 to nothing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• overcoming
• whopping
• burying
• beating
• thrashing
• trouncing
• throwing
• bombing
• upsetting
• dusting
• clobbering
• annihilating
• flattening
• whomping
• drubbing
• smothering
• trimming
• topping
• pasting
• routing
• creaming
• whupping
• mastering
• taking
• shellacking
• skinning
• smoking
• blowing away
• overwhelming
• sweeping
• scoring
• waxing
• exceeding
• crushing
• conquering
• skunking
• surpassing
• tromping
• dispatching
• destroying
• succeeding
• capping
• running circles around
• snowing under
• licking
• beating the pants off
• eating alive
• subduing
• wiping the floor with
• vanquishing
• finishing
• surmounting
• slaughtering
• besting
• hurdling
• subjugating
• upending
• overpowering
• eclipsing
• prevailing (over)
• outstripping
• overthrowing
• winning (against)
• outdoing
• outdistancing
• outshining
• transcending
• triumphing (over)
• flourishing
• bettering
• excelling
• overmatching
• overbearing
• knocking over
• overtopping
• sinking
• edging (out)
• knocking off
• outfighting
• breaking
• pipping
• worsting
• acing (out)
• nosing out
• doing in

3

as in hitting

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

arrested for walloping a police officer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hitting
• slapping
• smacking
• knocking
• slamming
• punching
• banging
• pounding
• whacking
• striking
• clapping
• clipping
• cracking
• thumping
• swiping
• batting
• hammering
• nailing
• socking
• kicking
• clobbering
• swatting
• slugging
• thwacking
• bashing
• bludgeoning
• clouting
• belting
• boxing
• tapping
• bobbing
• clocking
• shoving
• licking
• zapping
• bopping
• jabbing
• pushing
• smiting
• slogging
• poking
• chopping
• busting
• flicking
• pasting
• biffing
• stabbing
• tagging
• battering
• rapping
• bumping
• stroking
• pummeling
• beating
• mauling
• bonking
• whaling
• drubbing
• peppering
• mangling
• pelting
• lashing
• buffeting
• slashing
• cuffing
• hanging one on
• whipping
• dumping
• roughing
• lambasting
• bunging
• stamping
• scuffing
• prodding
• jostling
• kneeing
• thrashing
• butting
• cudgeling
• sapping
• creaming
• pommeling
• bunting
• spearing
• braining
• lacing
• flailing
• flogging
• switching
• bowling (down or over)
• decking
• leveling
• caning
• sledgehammering
• clubbing
• flooring
• sledging
• conking
• felling
• knocking down
• skulling
• beaning
• sucker punching
• rabbit-punching

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of walloping

Adjective

Early in the first period, minutes before his career ended and his life forever changed, Normand Leveille took a walloping check along the sidewall at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022

Yet even for that song, after an undoubtedly exhausting hour and 40 minutes, Beavis pushed himself to the breaking point, extending the climax with not one, not five, but 13 walloping, finale-worthy slams. — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2022

Los Angeles — Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2022

The result is a gathering of compact objects that pack a walloping collective punch. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022

What makes Coco so emotionally walloping, though—and what qualifies it as a perfect Thanksgiving film—is the film’s quiet reminders of the joys and annoyances of being part of a generations-spanning family. — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2018

If every decision had been for real money, the oldest adults would have walked away with a walloping 39 percent less cash than young adults. — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013

Noun

The walloping of Republican candidates reflected a motivated electorate. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2026

He was held from the lineup again on Wednesday, and following the Boys in Blue's 14-1 walloping of the Reds, the Dodgers announced Ohtani was headed to the IL. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

The last time the Dolphins beat the Lions in South Florida was a 49-21 walloping in the season opener of 2002, which was also Ricky Williams’ Dolphins debut. — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026

The Minnesota Vikings subsequently hosted the Bengals last weekend in Minneapolis and blew the doors off in a 48-10 walloping that has some around the NFL wondering what might become of Cincinnati's season after back-to-back games that included three and five turnovers, respectively. — Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

Verb

First, impacts from Hurricane Marie arrived on Labor Day weekend, walloping the coast with 8- to 10-foot waves. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

The novel’s ascending scale of intrigue delivers a walloping impact. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026

After last year’s WCS loss to the Yankees (a series much closer than the two-game 18-2 walloping by New York this year), Breslow made roster-changing moves. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Their strength was in walloping a structure and making parts of it collapse, thereby weakening the defenses of the castle under siege. — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Sep. 2026

The Giants’ lineup smothered the Cubs’ pitchers, hitting seven home runs and scoring the first 16 runs of the game en route to an 18-3 walloping at Wrigley Field. — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026

The comic sold a walloping 150,000 copies. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026

Pregnancy is well-known to be rough on sleep—the constant need to pee, the baby walloping your insides—but things can get worse postpartum, and not just because of the baby’s needs. — Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Mar. 2026

As the West bakes, a major winter storm is walloping the Upper Midwest and the upper Great Lakes regions, with heavy snow expected across Wisconsin and Michigan on Monday. — Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026