What's the difference between humongous and whopping?

Humongous


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sarah Ferguson issued a fresh statement in support of Prince Andrew on Tuesday, describing her ex-husband as a “humongously good man” and endorsing Buckingham Palace’s denial of allegations that he had sexual relations with a teenage girl.
  • (2) I will fucking do one humongous deal with you ... Like a 50,000 buck deal, whatever.
  • (3) She now has nine million YouTube subscribers and a humongous Twitter following @ZoZeeBo .
  • (4) "The key drivers are the humongous GDP growth [in fast-developing countries], which is three times that in the old world; lots of exports; and a lot higher investment in Asia."
  • (5) Buckingham Palace put out a denial,” Ferguson told NBC’s Today, “and we stand by that denial.” “I won’t stand by – because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you – and not support him so publicly, because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations,” said Ferguson, who added: “The American people know my integrity.” She said that given Andrew’s qualities “as a great father, and a humongously good man, and all the works he does for Britain,” she would not “let him have his character defamed to this level”.
  • (6) Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you or your daughter getting humongous breast implants, after all, there are not serious risks .
  • (7) Eggy swim, rocky swim…” At the hot river Jack draws his first pictures: Humongous Rock, Humongous Rock II (as an adjective “massive” is abandoned as not up to the job), and Iceland (lots of red and black).
  • (8) The humongously flaming Behind the Candelabra failed to get theatrical distribution despite starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, while Interior.
  • (9) Fossil fuel giants already have a humongous credibility gap to fill when it comes to climate and clean energy.
  • (10) Service is exceptional and prices surprisingly low for the humongous portions.
  • (11) the six month Japanese yen Libor rate] unchanged today … I will fucking do one humongous deal with you … Like a 50,000 buck deal, whatever … I need you to keep it as low as possible … if you do that … I'll pay you, you know, 50,000 dollars, 100,000 dollars … whatever you want … I'm a man of my word".

Whopping


Definition:

  • (a.) Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No sign of an OMT announcement.. September 10, 2012 Updated at 2.46pm BST 2.12pm BST Another development in Greece: there is growing speculation in Athens today that with Greek debt still at a whopping 166% of GDP – despite a massive write-down by private sector creditors earlier this year – another haircut, this time by the official sector, is on the cards.
  • (2) Printers have come a long way since 1984 when Hewlett Packard introduced the ThinkJet , the firm's first personal inkjet printer grinding at a snail's pace of two pages a minute and priced at a whopping $495.
  • (3) When Simon Crowther began his course in 2012, RPI inflation was 3.6%, so in the first year interest of a whopping 6.6% was being added.
  • (4) The beta-carotene content of sweet potatoes has been boosted from 10 micrograms per gram to a whopping 115.
  • (5) For what it's worth, Labour lost on a whopping great 18% swing to the Tories, yet despite an awful lot of muttering absolutely nothing happened.
  • (6) Constantine – who has now taken the precaution of buying up the trademark to his own name in case Amazon tries a countermove – is now ready for a another outbreak of hostilities with Amazon: "Now I've said this to you," he said, "they will no doubt give us another whopping with a stick."
  • (7) Some of the worst affected locales include the Volga city of Tolyatti with a whopping 3.0 per cent prevalence, and the Irkutsk region in Siberia with 1.5 per cent, Pokrovsky said.
  • (8) Rob Carnell at ING Financial Markets The latest durable goods orders data throw more doubt on the resilience of the US recovery, with the headline growth rate of only 0.3% helped by a whopping 75.9% gain in non-defence aircraft.
  • (9) Which is why the government pumped a whopping £40bn into the nationalised banks yesterday (more than the October bailout), but made sure not to increase its shareholding in RBS.
  • (10) Those companies aren’t evil, but the jury is still out on whether they can balance large audiences of children on one side with whopping in-app purchases in games for adults on the other, without falling foul of parents.
  • (11) Among the fifth of voters who said the most important quality to them in choosing a candidate was "cares about people like me", Obama had a whopping 81-18 edge.
  • (12) This March, the proportions of loans taken by finance and property slumped all the way to a trifling 74.7%, while non-financial firms took a whopping 25.3%.
  • (13) That's effectively what the Guardian did last week, except that there was no beloved actor, but rather a whopping great multinational company accused of dumping toxic waste off the Ivory Coast, following which a lot of people got rather sick and more than a little upset.
  • (14) In Star Trek Into Darkness, he allegedly used the special effect a whopping 826 times.
  • (15) Between 2003–4 and 2010–11, a whopping £176.64bn was spent on them.
  • (16) He has already outlasted Leonid Brezhnev (18 years) and is closing in fast on comrade Stalin (a whopping 31).
  • (17) In 2007, when he faced a referendum with no rivals, he won with a whopping 97.6% of the vote.
  • (18) Before permitting the release of NBK in 1994, the censors insisted that Stone strip a whopping 150 shots from the film.
  • (19) Giving the NYPD a fail grade, the public advocate noted that "28% of answered requests took more than 60 days to process," while a whopping "31% of requests received no response."
  • (20) Asian Americans Asian Americans delivered another whopping vote of confidence to Obama, siding with him by 74% to 25%.