whopping
adjective
[ ˈwɒpɪŋ ]
• very large.
• "a whopping £74 million loss"
Similar:
huge,
massive,
enormous,
gigantic,
very big,
very large,
great,
giant,
colossal,
mammoth,
vast,
immense,
tremendous,
mighty,
stupendous,
monumental,
epic,
prodigious,
mountainous,
monstrous,
titanic,
towering,
elephantine,
king-sized,
king-size,
gargantuan,
Herculean,
Brobdingnagian,
substantial,
extensive,
hefty,
bulky,
weighty,
heavy,
gross,
mega,
monster,
whopping great,
thumping,
thumping great,
humongous,
jumbo,
hulking,
bumper,
astronomical,
astronomic,
whacking,
whacking great,
ginormous,
whop
verb
• hit hard.
• "Smith whopped him on the nose"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘take or put sharply’): variant of dialect wap ‘strike’, of unknown origin.
