bulky

C1
US /ˈbʌlki/
adj Freq #24968

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.

    Action such as this, filmed under great difficulty with a bulky, hand-cranked camera, revealed the possibilities of the movies and was quite startling in those early days.

  2. 2
    adj

    of large size for its weight

  3. 3
    adj

    Unwieldy.

  4. 4
    adj

    Having excess body mass, especially muscle.

Etymology

From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.

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Word family
Derived forms bulkilybulkinessnonbulkyoverbulkysuperbulkyunbulky

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