whop·ping
(wŏp′ĭng, hwŏp′-) Slangadj.
Exceptionally large: "yet another whopping pay raise" (Lee Atwater).
adv.
Used as an intensive: a whopping good joke.
[ Present participle of whop.]
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whopping
(ˈwɒpɪŋ)adj
informal uncommonly large
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whop•ping
(ˈʰwɒp ɪŋ, ˈwɒp-)adj. Informal.
1. very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
adv. 2. extremely; exceedingly: a whopping big lie.
[1615–25]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Adj. | 1. |  whopping - (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
| Adv. | 1. | whopping - extremely; "they all were whopping drunk" |
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whopping
adjective gigantic, great, big, large, huge, giant, massive, enormous, extraordinary, tremendous, monstrous, whacking (informal), mammoth, prodigious, elephantine, humongous or humungous (U.S. slang) Planned spending amounts to a whopping $31.4 billion.
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whopping
adjectiveSlang. Of extraordinary size and power:
behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast.
Informal: walloping.
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Translations
كَبير، هائِل
enorm
baromi nagyóriási
milzigs, neiedomajams
velikánsky
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
whopping
[ˈhwɒpɪŋ] adj (= big) [fee] → exorbitant(e); [increase] → spectaculaire; [lie, mistake] → énormea whopping 85% of the vote → un pourcentage écrasant de 85% des suffrages
whopping great, whopping big → maous(se) , mahous(se)
a whopping great chocolate cake → un gâteau au chocolat maous
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whopping
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
whopping
(ˈwopiŋ) adjective (informal) (also whopping great) huge; very large or big. a whopping lie; a whopping great deficit.
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