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whopper - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | whopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | big lie |
| Synonyms: | fabrication, falsehood, lie, story, tale, untruth |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | amplification, baloney*, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock*, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story*, flight of fancy*, hogwash*, hyperbole, inflation, jazz*, line*, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story |
| Antonyms: | reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story |
| Notes: | a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fib |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undetailed lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, crock*, equivocation, evasiveness, fabrication, fairy tale*, falsehood, falsity, fiction, invention, jazz*, line*, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn*, spinach, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
| Synonyms: | anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination |
| Antonyms: | truth, non-fiction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | giant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely large person |
| Synonyms: | behemoth, bulk, cetacean, colossus, elephant*, hulk, jumbo*, mammoth, monster*, mountain*, ogre, whale*, whopper*, Hercules, cyclops, goliath, leviathan, polypheme, titan |
| Antonyms: | dwarf, midget, runt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cock-and-bull story*, con*, con game*, crock*, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, fib, flimflam*, fraud, gimmick, gyp*, humbug*, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job*, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper*, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, hooey, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humdinger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | ace, beauty, champion, crackerjack*, doozy, hit, knockout, pistol*, something, whopper, winner, champ, hot stuff, lulu, pip, smash hit, something else |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | untruth |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, slander, subterfuge, tale, white lie*, whopper, calumniation, disinformation, falseness, falsification, fraudulence, revilement, reviling, tall story, vilification |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sensationalism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | boasting, excess, fabrication, fish story*, hype, hyperbole, puffery, whopper*, yellow journalism*, aggrandizement, overemphasis, tabloid journalism, tall story |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tremendous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge, overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, appalling, astounding, awesome, awful, blimp, colossal, deafening, dreadful, enormous, excellent, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fearful, formidable, frightful, gargantuan, gigantic, great, humongous, immense, incredible, jumbo*, large, mammoth, marvelous, massive, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, stupendous, super, terrible, terrific, titanic, towering, vast, whale*, whopper, whopping, wonderful, cracking, great big, mondo |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, little, small, tiny, unimportant, underwhelming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | untruth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood |
| Synonyms: | canard, deceit, distortion, lie, misrepresentation, prevarication, whopper* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quantity |
| Synonyms: | bulk, bundle, chunk, expanse, extent, flock, heap, hunk, load, lot, magnitude, mass, measure, mess*, mint*, number, oodles*, pack, peck, pile, scads*, score, supply, volume, whopper*, aplenty, bags, gob, jillion, mucho, passel, slat, slew, ton |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, great |
| Synonyms: | ample, brimming, bulky, bull*, burly, capacious, chock-full*, colossal, commodious, considerable, copious, crowded, enormous, extensive, fat, full, gigantic, hefty, huge, hulking, humongous*, husky, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, monster*, packed, ponderous, prodigious, roomy, sizable, spacious, strapping, stuffed, substantial, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whopper, whopping, a whale of a, awash, heavy-duty, heavyweight, mondo, oversize, super colossal, thundering, walloping |
| Antonyms: | little, small, tiny, itsy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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