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

Aron refuses to forgive Adam for his lies about his mother, signs up for the Great War, and goes to his death.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Thou Shalt Not Steal, which launches on October 6, is a coming-of-age, roadtrip, moralistic odyssey about the lies people tell themselves and each other.

— Peter White, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of lies

Noun

For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
The new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act remove some of the legal basis for enforcing rules for noisy seismic surveys, speed limits on vessels and restrictions on shipping routes designed to help protect the whales from harm.

— Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Fear of the wilderness and its potentially lethal native creatures is hardwired into the human brain and fueled tales of haunted forests and murderous animals throughout history.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
And there’s good stories, different stories in there, different tales to tell.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of tales

Noun

Andersen predicts security concerns will ultimately keep China’s turbine giants from conquering the continent.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
As rural communities across the United States wage intensifying battles to keep AI-computing data centers out of their backyards, some tech giants are mulling methods that could sidestep such local resentment — by sending the facilities to space.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

Hassan Babar, the festival’s artistic director, said such stories should not merely serve as counter-narratives.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Across the research, historical examples, and personal stories explored in the book, the same two-sided GRP pattern appears again and again.

— Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of stories

Noun

The main three projects — The Mummy, The Loudest Voice and Unabomber — each involve monsters in various forms.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
The world has seen many hurricanes rapidly intensify in recent years, strengthening from relatively weak storms into destructive monsters in a matter of hours.

— Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
For the dinosaurs that survived the initial blast, the world became an unforgiving wilderness of starvation and severe climate shifts.

— Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026

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