Synonyms of whacking

whacking 1 of 3

adjective

as in giant

unusually large

harvested a whacking number of zucchini from the garden

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

whacking

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adverb

as in extremely

to a great degree

the clown wore a whacking big pair of shoes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• extremely
• damn
• damned
• very
• terribly
• incredibly
• too
• badly
• so
• highly
• desperately
• severely
• jolly
• really
• seriously
• wildly
• super
• far
• full
• that
• cracking
• thumping
• especially
• real
• exceeding
• heavily
• most
• rattling
• intensely
• greatly
• mighty
• much
• passing
• such
• good and
• roaring
• particularly
• fiercely
• extra
• exceptionally
• wicked
• spanking
• sore
• awfully
• dang
• bone
• awful
• fantastically
• absolutely
• way
• fabulously
• specially
• monstrous
• exceedingly
• immensely
• deadly
• totally
• almighty
• supremely
• hugely
• mortally
• eminently
• frightfully
• uncommonly
• vitally
• corking
• beastly
• thoroughly
• a lot
• completely
• utterly
• remarkably
• sorely
• stinking
• surpassingly
• enormously
• filthy
• achingly
• positively
• archly
• roaringly
• ever
• mightily
• deeply
• vastly
• entirely
• right
• blisteringly
• unco
• majorly
• as all get-out
• significantly
• colossally
• wholly
• noticeably
• visibly
• downright
• considerably
• fully
• flat-out
• radically
• obviously
• notably
• substantially
• purely
• profoundly
• extensively
• altogether
• markedly
• obscenely
• excessively
• palpably
• plainly
• discernibly
• appreciably
• monumentally
• plentifully
• monstrously
• astronomically
• abundantly
• astonishingly
• grandly
• amazingly
• overmuch
• staggeringly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• somewhat
• slightly
• nominally
• just
• negligibly
• barely
• hardly
• scarcely
• marginally
• minimally
• scantily
• meagerly

whacking

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verb

present participle of whack

1

as in smacking

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

whacked the vending machine to get the candy bar to fall

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in murdering

slang to put to death deliberately

without a second thought the mob boss had them whacked

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murdering
• assassinating
• slaying
• executing
• killing
• getting
• dispatching
• neutralizing
• snuffing
• destroying
• liquidating
• slaughtering
• terminating
• offing
• shooting
• croaking
• taking out
• icing
• putting away
• knocking off
• doing away with
• doing in
• bumping off
• smiting
• rubbing out
• zapping
• claiming
• massacring
• eliminating
• cutting down
• eradicating
• butchering
• blowing away
• felling
• annihilating
• shooting down
• exterminating
• carrying off
• blotting out
• mowing (down)
• wiping out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raising
• restoring
• reviving
• animating
• resurrecting
• resuscitating