Word.ws English Dictionary

big if true

big if true phrase: said in response to a rumored statement, to imply that if the rumor is factual it will have a large impact.

Phrase

big if true

  1. Said in response to a rumored statement, to imply that if the rumor is factual it will have a large impact.
    • Interesting. 🤔 Big if true. Will look into it.2024 October 16, Nathan Simington, Twitter
    Synonyms:
    huge if true
  2. (Internet, humorous) Said in response to an obvious statement, or an absurdly untrue one.

Synonyms of big if true

Origin of big if true

Derived from sensationalist news headlines reporting on rumors.

Questions about big if true

What does big if true mean?
Big if true means said in response to a rumored statement, to imply that if the rumor is factual it will have a large impact.
What part of speech is big if true?
Big if true is a phrase.

Words near big if true in the dictionary

  1. Big Horn County
  2. big house
  3. big house, little house, back house, barn
  4. big houses
  5. big if
  6. big if true
  7. big ifs
  8. big iron
  9. Big Island
  10. Big Jacks Creek
  11. Big Jim and the twins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: big if true (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “big if true.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/big_if_true. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.