Synonyms
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- galactic
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
Examples of whopping in a Sentence
The play was a whopping success.
The car sped by at a whopping 110 miles per hour.
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Philadelphia scored a whopping 55 points in the NFC championship game against Washington, but Kansas City’s elite defense doesn’t compare to the Commanders’ middling unit.
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
Hanks has hosted the show a whopping 10 times, and cameoed on more than 10 additional eps of the show.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
In 2024, Chicago’s Wrigleyville spiked engagement on Tripadvisor’s neighborhood attraction pages by a whopping 72 percent.
—Wendy Altschuler, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2025
But what makes this discovery at the Domus Aurea all the more remarkable is the whopping size of the Egyptian blue ingot in question, which weighs more than five pounds and measures six inches long.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
Hanks has hosted the show a whopping 10 times, and cameoed on more than 10 additional eps of the show.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
In 2024, Chicago’s Wrigleyville spiked engagement on Tripadvisor’s neighborhood attraction pages by a whopping 72 percent.
—Wendy Altschuler, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2025
But what makes this discovery at the Domus Aurea all the more remarkable is the whopping size of the Egyptian blue ingot in question, which weighs more than five pounds and measures six inches long.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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whopping
adjective
whop·ping
ˈhwäp-iŋ 
ˈwäp-
: extremely large
got a whopping increase in his allowance
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