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BULKY
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Irregular inflected forms: bulkier , bulkiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of large size for its weight
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
bulk (the property possessed by a large mass)
bulk (the property of something that is great in magnitude)
bulkiness (an unwieldy largeness)
Context examples:
There is something bulky in Peggotty's pocket.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Challenger levered his bulky figure slowly out of his chair.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He then closed the door behind the bulky form which followed him and carefully adjusted the heavy curtain over the latticed window.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Belgian Tervuren is a slender dog, squarely proportioned and solidly muscled, but not bulky.
(Belgian Tervuren, NCI Thesaurus)
In other words, these planets might look as big and bulky as Jupiter, but are roughly a hundred times lighter in terms of mass.
('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)
The results could be used in the development of highly-efficient solid-state refrigerators and air conditioners, without the need for bulky and expensive magnets.
(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)
The medium-boned dog is muscular, but not bulky.
(Kuvasz, NCI Thesaurus)
A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Symptoms usually appear in childhood and include meconium ileus, poor growth despite good appetite, malabsorption and foul bulky stools, chronic bronchitis with cough, recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis, emphysema, clubbing of the fingers, and salt depletion in hot weather.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)
