Bulky
['bʌlkɪ] or ['bʌlki]
Definition
(a.) Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
Typed by Josephine
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Large, great, big, huge, vast, of great size or bulk.
Editor: Vito
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Huge, unwieldy, heavy, large, ample, ponderous, burly, cumbrous, gigantic,brawny, massive
ANT:Small, light, slight, airy, thin, delicate, nimble, attenuated, slender,sylphlike, puny, tiny
Edited by Henry
Examples
- I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And I have no doubt that the time taken by the court would be enormously less, because if a judge attempts to read the bulky records and briefs, that work alone would require several days. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is now so bulky that the impossibility of any one man's coming into possession of it all is obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- St. Peter's is bulky. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- An interesting treatise of bulky dimensions might be written in answer to these queries, and the answers might not then be wholly satisfactory. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The instrument was also heavy and bulky. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There is something bulky in Peggotty's pocket. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Corn is a much more bulky commodity than butcher's meat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Checker: Mandy