bulky
C1
adj
Freq #24968
Meanings
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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.
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2
adj
of large size for its weight
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3
adj
Unwieldy.
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4
adj
Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Etymology
From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.
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Derived forms
bulkilybulkinessnonbulkyoverbulkysuperbulkyunbulky