different between monstrous vs whopping

English

Etymology

From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin m?nstr?sus. Compare monstruous.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?nst??s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?nst??s/
• Hyphenation: mon?strous

Adjective

monstrous (comparative more monstrous, superlative most monstrous)

1. Hideous or frightful.
2. Enormously large.

   a monstrous height
3. Freakish or grotesque.

   • The irregular and monstrous births

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercises of holy living

     He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.

4. Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
5. (obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Translations

Middle English

Adjective

monstrous

1. Alternative form of monstruous

English

Etymology

whop (verb) +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?(h)w?p??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?(h)w?p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??
• Hyphenation: whop?ping

Adjective

whopping (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Exceptionally great or large.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:gigantic

Translations

Adverb

whopping (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Exceedingly, extremely, very.

Synonyms

• awfully
• terribly

Verb

whopping

1. present participle of whop.

Noun

whopping (plural whoppings)

1. A beating.

Synonyms

• thrashing
• walloping
• whupping (colloquial)

Further reading

• “whopping” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 24 July 2017.