WALLOPING Synonyms: 402 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈwä-lə-piŋ

Definition of walloping

as in colossal

unusually large he needed help to mount such a walloping horse

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walloping

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noun

as in thrashing

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walloping

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verb

present participle of wallop

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly walloped the branches of the pear tree with a stick in an effort to knock down some fruit

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as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin walloped their traditional rivals 20 to nothing

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as in hitting

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner arrested for walloping a police officer

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Adjective

Early in the first period, minutes before his career ended and his life forever changed, Normand Leveille took a walloping check along the sidewall at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022 Yet even for that song, after an undoubtedly exhausting hour and 40 minutes, Beavis pushed himself to the breaking point, extending the climax with not one, not five, but 13 walloping, finale-worthy slams. — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2022 Los Angeles — Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2022 The result is a gathering of compact objects that pack a walloping collective punch. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022 What makes Coco so emotionally walloping, though—and what qualifies it as a perfect Thanksgiving film—is the film’s quiet reminders of the joys and annoyances of being part of a generations-spanning family. — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2018 If every decision had been for real money, the oldest adults would have walked away with a walloping 39 percent less cash than young adults. — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013

Noun

He was held from the lineup again on Wednesday, and following the Boys in Blue's 14-1 walloping of the Reds, the Dodgers announced Ohtani was headed to the IL. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 The Current made sure to give their new fans plenty to cheer for in a 5-1 walloping of last-place Racing Louisville. — Pj Green july 30, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026 The last time the Dolphins beat the Lions in South Florida was a 49-21 walloping in the season opener of 2002, which was also Ricky Williams’ Dolphins debut. — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026 The Minnesota Vikings subsequently hosted the Bengals last weekend in Minneapolis and blew the doors off in a 48-10 walloping that has some around the NFL wondering what might become of Cincinnati's season after back-to-back games that included three and five turnovers, respectively. — Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

Verb

First, impacts from Hurricane Marie arrived on Labor Day weekend, walloping the coast with 8- to 10-foot waves. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 The novel’s ascending scale of intrigue delivers a walloping impact. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026 After last year’s WCS loss to the Yankees (a series much closer than the two-game 18-2 walloping by New York this year), Breslow made roster-changing moves. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Their strength was in walloping a structure and making parts of it collapse, thereby weakening the defenses of the castle under siege. — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Sep. 2026 The Giants’ lineup smothered the Cubs’ pitchers, hitting seven home runs and scoring the first 16 runs of the game en route to an 18-3 walloping at Wrigley Field. — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026 The comic sold a walloping 150,000 copies. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026 Pregnancy is well-known to be rough on sleep—the constant need to pee, the baby walloping your insides—but things can get worse postpartum, and not just because of the baby’s needs. — Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Mar. 2026 As the West bakes, a major winter storm is walloping the Upper Midwest and the upper Great Lakes regions, with heavy snow expected across Wisconsin and Michigan on Monday. — Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for walloping

Adjective

Among the companies that pursued a traditional IPO, only Circle is trading close to its listing price—and that’s primarily thanks to the colossal opening day pop the company enjoyed back in June of 2025.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Concrete, when poured over rods of steel, proved strong enough to prop up colossal skyscrapers that Julius Caesar could only have dreamed of.

— Sara Herschander, Vox, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of colossal

Noun

Higher still, Kerr led me up a steep groove that demanded such vicious thrashing and groveling that my whole body hurt.

— Daniel Duane, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026
The world’s richest person, MAGA donor, chainsaw waver, baby daddy and would-be Mars colonizer takes a thrashing.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of thrashing

Verb

Groups of young people were seen dancing with music pounding through the crowd as meters away tear gas billowed into the air.

— Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
At the moment, the good detective is strutting around the float, kicking the wheels and pounding the floorboards.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of pounding

Verb

Now imagine whipping your phone out after work, telling the world about it, and landing a brand deal worth $10K or more.

— Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Now imagine the same hot and dry conditions, but with the Santa Anas whipping at 40 miles an hour.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of whipping

Verb

Antetokounmpo was everywhere, throwing a down a poster dunk over Mavericks center Daniel Gafford, hitting pull-up threes and assisting on a bunch of the Heat’s three-pointers.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
Each draw is tied to Anthropic hitting certain compute capacity milestones.

— Ashley Capoot,Jordan Novet,Annie Palmer,Lora Kolodny,Kai Nicol-Schwarz,Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of hitting

Adjective

The Bruins took a huge hit with their top six players all getting drafted by WNBA teams.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
With its available sun-deflecting bright-white fabric and huge garage door-like entryway, the tent makes for a natural day shelter for events out in the sun, rain and wind.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of huge

Noun

The butt of the Axvant is designed to double as a mallet, mostly for knocking in tent stakes and taking care of other basic, non-precision hammering.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
Coastal flooding and hammering winds are already underway from North Carolina and Virginia to New Jersey, the start of a dayslong coastal flood and erosion threat that will extend into New England as the storm ramps up.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of hammering

Verb

Which is funny, because the cat-cow’s here in Crap Central with us, licking something off Carl’s boot.

— George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Teams have to be licking their chops after seeing what Tampa Bay did to Dallas last Thursday night, especially considering the defense (or lack thereof) that the Cowboys have shown through five weeks.

— Jonathan Rubin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of licking

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