whale of a

ADJECTIVE

giant

Synonyms

STRONGEST

big colossal enormous gargantuan gigantic huge hulking humongous immense jumbo mammoth monstrous vast

STRONG

gross

WEAK

brobdingnagian cyclopean elephantine herculean mountainous prodigious super-duper titanic whaling

Antonyms

STRONGEST

little miniature minuscule minute small teeny tiny

WEAK

minor

ADJECTIVE

massy

Synonyms

WEAK

Bunyanesque behemoth big brobdingnagian colossal cyclopean elephantine enormous gargantuan gigantesque gigantic gross herculean heroic huge hulking humongous immense jumbo mammoth massive mastodonic mighty monster monstrous monumental mountainous prodigious pythonic stupendous super-duper titanic tremendous vast whaling

ADJECTIVE

mastodonic

Synonyms

WEAK

Bunyanesque behemothic big brobdingnagian colossal cyclopean elephantine enormous gargantuan gigantesque gigantic gross herculean heroic huge hulking humongous immense jumbo mammoth massive massy mighty monster monstrous monumental mountainous prodigious pythonic stupendous super-duper titanic tremendous vast whaling

ADJECTIVE

pythonic

Synonyms

WEAK

Bunyanesque behemothic big brobdingnagian colossal cyclopean elephantine enormous gargantuan gigantesque gigantic gross herculean heroic huge hulking humongous immense jumbo mammoth massive massy mastodonic mighty monster monstrous monumental mountainous prodigious stupendous super-duper titanic tremendous vast whaling

ADJECTIVE

walloping

Synonyms

STRONG

gross heroic hulking mammoth monster whaling

WEAK

Bunyanesque big brobdingnagian colossal cyclopean elephantine enormous gargantuan gigantesque gigantic herculean huge humongous immense jumbo massive massy mastodonic mighty monstrous monumental mountainous prodigious pythonic stupendous super-duper titanic tremendous vast

Example Sentences

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"If you look at my page, it looks like I'm having a whale of a time," Caity says.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

He explains why it was actually a whale of a time.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024

Irrefutably male Craig and Trevor prowl the streets of a very soundstagey New York, mansplaining their magnificence, and Sharp and Jackson have a whale of a time butching it up.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

“He was as different as they came,” Boehner said, “but a good, solid member who did a whale of a job on behalf of Alaska.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022

Little they cared how wet I got, because then Mother could have a whale of a time being afraid I was taking pneumonia.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

whale of a

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