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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

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"We only come up for the day to use it, we used to come as a family, it's lovely up here, we would always have a whale of a time," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025

“I had not seen Bo Nix in person, I thought he played a whale of a game today, he’s a really good football player and you have to give him credit,” Kelly said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2022

“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

“It’s going to be an absolute whale of a ball game Saturday.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2021

“I am trying to get this whale of a snapper,” I said in such an ordinary voice that it was dull.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

whale of a

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