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hulkier

hulkier is the comparative form of hulky.

Meaning of hulky

Adjective

hulky (comparative hulkier, superlative hulkiest)

  1. Large; hulking.
    • ‘I want to go first and have a round with that hulky fellow who turned to challenge me. It would be a good lesson for him.’1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book VI, chapter 56

Questions about hulkier

What is hulkier the comparative form of?
Hulkier is the comparative form of hulky.

Words near hulkier in the dictionary

  1. hulke
  2. hulked
  3. hulked off
  4. hulked out
  5. hulkes
  6. hulkier
  7. hulkiest
  8. hulking
  9. hulking off
  10. hulking out
  11. hulkingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hulkier (page history and authors); hulky (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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