WHOPPERS Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

whoppers

noun

plural of whopper

as in lies

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive told a whopper to get out of jury duty

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as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful a whopper of a fish that won first prize in the derby the season finale ended with a whopper of a cliffhanger

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Recent Examples of whoppers One of my favorite head coach whoppers. — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025 And then there were the epic flavor fails, including a couple of real whoppers. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025 From hyperloops to solar roofs to trillion-dollar savings from federal budget cuts by DOGE, Musk has developed a reputation for excessive boasts and telling outright whoppers. — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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Noun

The film follows an 11-year-old boy who exploits his brother’s tragic death to fight his father and his community, until his lies expose the hypocrisy and corruption beneath a seemingly moral society.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
Their lawsuit against Jones and the 2022 verdict marked the first time he was held financially liable for peddling lies about the massacre, claiming it was faked by the government to tighten gun laws.

— Jim Vertuno, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of lies

Noun

The Georgia Aquarium’s two newest beluga whales are safe and sound in Atlanta after being rescued from a shuttered aquatic park in Canada.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Georgia Aquarium staff say Balor and Zephyr will meet their trainers and, eventually, join the aquarium's existing pod of beluga whales.

— CBS Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

The two dashing newcomers have since been regaling the Georgia Aquarium’s existing belugas, a quartet of females*, with tales of their peregrinations.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
From a shark attack and skydiving accident to a near plane crash, the adrenaline junkie shared his tales of his extreme adventuring with the outlet.

— Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of tales

Noun

At that point, the Spanish club was confident he would soon be snapped up by one of the game’s giants for mega money, so was happy to play the long game.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Tech giants like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic offer schools training sessions in how to use their AI tools.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

The explanation behind this family man’s strange case is well chronicled in many Chicago and New York news stories.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
At Khan & Kumar Media, we’re drawn to stories that resonate across cultures and borders, and ‘Forgotten Spaceman’ does exactly that.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of stories

Noun

The most obvious general interpretation of Buffy’s project is that the show transmutes real teenage anxieties into monsters; every villain is a metaphor.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026
As fans know, no world in Stranger Things is ever void, as there are always monsters lurking nearby, namely Vecna.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

Starting with the second film, The Lost World, a theme emerged in which dinosaurs were recast as victims who needed protecting from evil humans.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
That shape could be consistent with tracks left by either theropods — a group that includes meat-eating dinosaurs — or ornithopods, which were bipedal herbivores.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026

Definition of mammoths

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