whopper | Definition of whopper

Synonyms and Antonyms of whopper

1 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

told a whopper to get out of jury duty

Synonyms of whopper

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth

Words Related to whopper

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Near Antonyms of whopper

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

Antonyms of whopper

2 something that is unusually large and powerful

a whopper of a fish that won first prize in the derby

the season finale ended with a whopper of a cliffhanger

Synonyms of whopper

behemoth, blockbuster, colossus, dinosaur, dreadnought, elephant, giant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, mastodon, monster, titan, whale

Words Related to whopper

amazon, giantess

juggernaut, steamroller

Near Antonyms of whopper

lightweight, weakling, wimp, wisp

nonentity, twerp, whippersnapper

Antonyms of whopper

diminutive, dwarf, half-pint, midget, mite, peewee, pygmy (also pigmy), runt, shrimp