Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Extremely large; huge; enormous: Used informally to emphasize the great size, amount, or degree of something.
   • Used as an intensifier: Often placed before a noun to add strong emphasis, similar to "tremendous" or "monstrous."

2. Adverb:

   • Extremely; very: Used informally to intensify an adjective, meaning to a very great degree.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • The company reported a whopping profit this quarter.
  • He told a whopping lie that no one could believe.
  • We had to pay a whopping bill for the repairs.

• Adverb:

  • After the celebration, they were all whopping drunk.
  • The movie was whopping good, much better than expected.

Advanced Usage

• "A whopping great...": A common informal British English construction to add even more emphasis to size.
  • They live in a whopping great mansion by the lake.
• Used for dramatic or humorous effect, often in spoken language or informal writing to exaggerate.

Variants and Related Words

• Whopper (noun): Something unusually large, or a big lie.
  • That fish he caught was a real whopper.
  • He told a whopper to get out of trouble.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Enormous, gigantic, colossal, massive, tremendous, humongous, thumping (informal).
• Adverb: Extremely, exceedingly, incredibly, very.

Related Phrases

• A whopping majority: An overwhelmingly large majority.
  • The new law was passed with a whopping majority.
• A whopping discount: A very large reduction in price.
  • They offered a whopping discount for the grand opening.

Adjective

1. (used informally) very large
   • a thumping loss

Adverb

1. extremely
   • they all were whopping drunk