| Main Entry: | whopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | big lie |
Synonyms: |
fabrication, falsehood, lie, story, tale, untruth |
| Main Entry: | whopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
Synonyms: |
big, fabrication, falsehood, remarkable, story, untruth |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quantity |
Synonyms: |
aplenty, bags, bulk, bundle, chunk, expanse, extent, flock, gob, heap, hunk, jillion, load, lot, magnitude, mass, measure, mess*, mint, mucho, number, oodles*, pack, passel, peck, pile, scads, score, slat, slew, supply, ton, volume, whopper |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, great |
Synonyms: |
a whale of a, ample, awash, brimming, bulky, bull*, burly, capacious, chock-full, colossal, commodious, considerable, copious, crowded, enormous, extensive, fat, full, gigantic, heavy-duty, heavyweight, hefty, huge, hulking, humongous*, husky, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mondo, monster*, oversize, packed, ponderous, prodigious, roomy, sizable, spacious, strapping, stuffed, substantial, super colossal, thundering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, walloping, whopper, whopping |
Antonyms: |
itsy, little, small, tiny |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, 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*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
Synonyms: |
allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication, fairy story, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story, hogwash, invention, legend, lie, myth, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, parable, romance, tale, tall story, untruth, white lie, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
Synonyms: |
canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication, fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, figment, fraud, half truth, hogwash, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale, untruism, untruth, untruthfulness, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| 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, spinach, story, tale, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
Synonyms: |
anecdote, best seller, book, cliff-hanger, clothesline, concoction, crock, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, figment of imagination, fish story, hooey, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, potboiler, prevarication, romance, smoke*, storytelling, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, untruth, whopper, work of imagination, yarn |
Antonyms: |
non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | giant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely large person |
Synonyms: |
Hercules, behemoth, bulk, cetacean, colossus, cyclops, elephant, goliath, hulk, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster*, mountain*, ogre, polypheme, titan, whale, whopper |
Antonyms: |
dwarf, midget, runt |