bulkier; bulkiest
1
a
: having bulk
b(1)
: large of its kind
(2)
2
: having great volume in proportion to weight
a bulky knit sweater
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Examples of bulky in a Sentence
a big, bulky football player
bulky packages might cost more to mail
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Commissioners also floated the idea of scaling back the city’s recycling pickup, which happens twice a month, and its weekly bulky trash collection.
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Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
Immediately, James and Joyce Benjamin recognized that police officers might view their sons as a threat in an emergency — two biracial, bulky men who are as immature as middle-schoolers.
—Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Unlike their bulkier, more brutish-looking elders, which have the ability to raise their internal temperature above the surrounding water temperature, smaller adolescent great white sharks can’t yet regulate their body heat, Mailander said.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
As the climate cooled, however, their habitat shrank, and their physiology — short bulky legs without spreading hooves or pads —would have made moving through deep snow that formed after the last ice age difficult.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2024
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Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
Immediately, James and Joyce Benjamin recognized that police officers might view their sons as a threat in an emergency — two biracial, bulky men who are as immature as middle-schoolers.
—Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Unlike their bulkier, more brutish-looking elders, which have the ability to raise their internal temperature above the surrounding water temperature, smaller adolescent great white sharks can’t yet regulate their body heat, Mailander said.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
As the climate cooled, however, their habitat shrank, and their physiology — short bulky legs without spreading hooves or pads —would have made moving through deep snow that formed after the last ice age difficult.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2024
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“Bulky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulky. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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bulky
adjective
bulkier; bulkiest
1
: large in size or mass
2
: being large and hard to handle
bulkiness
noun
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