whopper

1 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive told a whopper to get out of jury duty Synonyms of whopper fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, lieWords Related to whopper distortion, exaggeration, half-truth; ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity; defamation, libel, slander; perjury; bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence); humbug, jive, nonsense; canard, fallacy, misconception, myth; falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement; deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulenceNear Antonyms of whopper fact, truism, verity; honesty, truthfulness, veracity; authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verificationAntonyms of whopper truth

2 something that is unusually large and powerful a whopper of a fish that won first prize in the derby Synonyms of whopper behemoth, blockbuster, colossus, dinosaur, dreadnought, elephant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, mastodon, monster, titan, whale, giantWords Related to whopper amazon, giantess; bulk, hulk; heavyweight; juggernaut, steamrollerNear Antonyms of whopper lightweight, weakling, wimp, wisp; nonentity, twerp, whippersnapperAntonyms of whopper diminutive, dwarf, half-pint, midget, mite, peewee, pygmy (also pigmy), runt, shrimp