First Known Use: 1576
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1thumping
adjective thump·ing \ˈthəm-piŋ\
: very large, great, etc.
Full Definition of THUMPING
: impressively large, great, or excellent <a thumping majority>
— thump·ing·ly adverb
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Origin of THUMPING
thumping, present participle of 1thump
2thumping
adverb
Definition of THUMPING
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First Known Use of THUMPING
1835
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- Synonyms
- achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, very, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
- Antonyms
- little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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