bulky
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 5
/ˈbʌlki/
Definition of bulky
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
“Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.”
“The captain did a safety drill. This covered where the emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was located, how to make a mayday call, and where the fire extinguishers were. A crew member demonstrated how to put on an immersion suit. These survival suits are waterproof full-body garments with a hood and integral three-finger gloves and boots. They are bulky and hard to get on but far more likely to save your life in cold water than a lifejacket.”
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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.”
“Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.”
“The captain did a safety drill. This covered where the emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was located, how to make a mayday call, and where the fire extinguishers were. A crew member demonstrated how to put on an immersion suit. These survival suits are waterproof full-body garments with a hood and integral three-finger gloves and boots. They are bulky and hard to get on but far more likely to save your life in cold water than a lifejacket.”
- Unwieldy.
- Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.
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