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bulky

large and cumbersome; massive; ponderous; unwieldy: The bulky package was hard to maneuver through the door.

Not to be confused with:

balky – pigheaded; contrary; stubborn; obstinate; perverse; mulish: The balky child refused to put on her shoes.

bulk·y

(bŭl′kē)

adj. bulk·i·er, bulk·i·est

1. Having considerable bulk; massive.

2. Of large size for its weight: a bulky knit.

3. Clumsy to manage; unwieldy.

bulk′i·ly adv.

bulk′i·ness n.

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bulky

(ˈbʌlkɪ)

adj, bulkier or bulkiest

very large and massive, esp so as to be unwieldy

ˈbulkily adv

ˈbulkiness n

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bulk•y

(ˈbʌl ki)

adj. bulk•i•er, bulk•i•est.

1. of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.

2. (of a fabric or yarn) thick; lofty.

3. made of thick, resilient fabric or yarn.

[1665–75]

bulk′i•ly, adv.

bulk′i•ness, n.

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Adj.

bulky - of large size for its weight

big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

bulky

adjective large, big, huge, heavy, massive, enormous, substantial, immense, mega (slang), very large, mammoth, colossal, cumbersome, weighty, hulking, unwieldy, ponderous, voluminous, unmanageable, elephantine, massy, ginormous (informal), humongous or humungous (U.S. slang) a bulky man with balding hair
small, slim, neat, convenient, handy, manageable, wieldy

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bulky

adjective

1. Extremely large; having great mass:

massive, oversize, oversized.

2. Having a large body, especially in girth:

heavy, hefty, hulking, hulky, husky, stout.

3. Difficult to handle or manage:

awkward, clumsy, ungainly, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy.

Translations

كَبيرُ الحَجْم، ضَخْم

objemnýveliký

klobig massig sperrig

ample étendu large volumineux

terjedelmes

fyrirferîarmikill

ingombrante voluminoso

diger uhåndterlig

objemný

zajeten

ağır kocamantaşınması zor

庞大的

bulky

[ˈbʌlkɪ] ADJ (bulkier (compar) (bulkiest (superl))) [parcel] → abultado; [person] → corpulento

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bulky

[ˈbʌlki] adj [thing] → volumineux/euse, encombrant(e); [person] → corpulent(e)

bulky

adj (+er)

object → sperrig; book → dick; sweater, spacesuit → unförmig; bulky goods → Sperrgut nt

person → massig, wuchtig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bulky

[ˈbʌlkɪ] adj → grosso/a, voluminoso/a

bulk

(balk) noun

1. the greater part. The bulk of his money was spent on food.

2. (great) size or mass. the bulk of a parcel; His huge bulk appeared round the corner.

adjective

in bulk. bulk buying.

ˈbulky adjective

large in size, awkward to carry etc. a bulky parcel; This is too bulky to send by post.

in bulk

in large quantities. Huge tankers now carry oil in bulk; They like to buy goods in bulk.

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The book is handsome and bulkily authoritative but suffers from having no colour in the illustrations except a wan black and white.

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How simple and naive and maybe even poor she must have seemed to the doorman: the mousy hair still cropped into the pageboy she's worn since shearing her girlhood braids, the green parka with the hood that zips bulkily into the collar, the corduroy jumper the color of stewed prunes, the white cotton turtleneck nappy from a hundred washes, the rubber-soled walking shoes ordered from a catalogue.