- whopping (great)
- mod. enormous.□ Somebody showed up with a whopping great basin of chunks of pickled fish. Yummy!□ What a whopping fool he is!
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whopping (great)
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whopping great — … Useful english dictionary
whopping — UK [ˈwɒpɪŋ] / US [ˈwɑpɪŋ] / US [ˈhwɑpɪŋ] adjective informal extremely large Sales grew last year by a whopping 78%. whopping great: They live in a whopping great house … English dictionary
whopping — [[t](h)wɒ̱pɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n, usu a ADJ amount (emphasis) If you describe an amount as whopping, you are emphasizing that it is large. [INFORMAL] The Russian leader won a whopping 89.9 percent yes vote... Planned spending amounts to a whopping… … English dictionary
whopping — also whopping great adjective (only before noun) spoken very large: a whopping fee … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
whopping — Adj. Very large. Adv. An intensifier. E.g. She had a whopping great glob of cream, then proceeded to moan about being fat … English slang and colloquialisms
whopping — [adj] enormous big, colossal, extraordinary, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, great, huge, immense, large, mammoth, massive, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, tremendous; concepts 773,781 Ant. little, small, teeny, tiny … New thesaurus
whopping — [hwäpiŋ, wäpiŋ] adj. [< WHOP + ING] Informal extraordinarily large or great; colossal … English World dictionary
great — adjective 1) they showed great interest Syn: considerable, substantial, significant, appreciable, special, serious; exceptional, extraordinary Ant: little 2) a great expanse of water Syn … Thesaurus of popular words
great — adjective 1) they showed great interest Syn: considerable, substantial, significant, serious, exceptional, extraordinary 2) a great expanse of water Syn: large, big, extensive, expansive … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
whopping — adjective exceptionally large or great It weighed a whopping 700 pounds, when it was full … Wiktionary
