bulky
/ˈbʌlki/
bulky adjective: being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.
Adjective
bulky (comparative bulkier, superlative bulkiest)
- 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.1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87
- 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.1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140
- Unwieldy.
- Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
bulky meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
bulky in Hindi
- bulky, large, fat
- स्थूल sthūl
bulky in Tamil
- பருமனான
bulky in Urdu
- bulky, thick, dense
- موٹا moṭā
bulky in Bengali
- বিশাল আয়তনের, স্থূল
More languagesFewer languages
- bulky in Telugu
- మహాకాయుడు mahākāyuḍu
- bulky in Malayalam
- സ്ഥൂല, സ്ഥൂലക, അമിതവലിപ്പമുള്ള, വലിയ
- bulky in Kannada
- ದಪ್ಪ, ದಪ್ಪನಾದ, ಸ್ಥೂಲವಾದ, ದೊಡ್ಡಪ್ರಮಾಣದ
- bulky in Arabic
- ضَخْم ḍaḵm
Examples of bulky in a sentence
- The earliest Wabanaki baskets were strong and bulky; practical tools for everyday life.
- For big and bulky JSONs, you would dedicate a NoSQL database, hoping that NoSQL means NoSQL injections.
- This requires bulky machinery and other equipment that one person is unlikely to be able to maneuver.
Forms of bulky
| comparative | bulkier |
|---|---|
| superlative | bulkiest |
Origin of bulky
From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.
Words formed from bulky
Questions about bulky
- What does bulky mean?
- Bulky means being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.
- What is bulky in Hindi?
- Bulky in Hindi is स्थूल (sthūl). See Bulky meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bulky?
- Bulky is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bulky?
- Bulky is pronounced /ˈbʌlki/.
Words near bulky in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bulky (page history and authors); स्थूल (Hindi) (page history and authors); bulky (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); موٹا (Urdu) (page history and authors); bulky (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మహాకాయుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); bulky (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bulky (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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