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Synonyms for bulkiness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : buhl-kee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌl ki |
Top 10 synonyms for bulkiness Other synonyms for the word bulkiness
- chanciness
- cumbersomeness
- danger
- distension
- enormousness
- fat
- fatness
- flab
- flesh
- fleshiness
- gigantism
- girth
- greatness
- grossness
- hazardousness
- heaviness
- heft
- heftiness
- hugeness
- immeasurableness
- immenseness
- inconvenience
- inflation
- largeness
- magnitude
- massiveness
- monstrousness
- obesity
- perilousness
- plumpness
- ponderosity
- ponderousness
- portliness
- protuberance
- pudginess
- risk
- rotundity
- sizableness
- size
- stoutness
- stupendousness
- tremendousness
- troublesomeness
- tumidity
- uncomfortableness
- unhandiness
- unmanageability
- unwieldiness
- weight
- weightiness
Définition of bulkiness
Origin :- mid-15c., "plump, stout," from bulk (n.) + -y (2). Related: Bulkiness.
- As in awkwardness : noun difficulty
- As in immensity : noun infinity
- As in avoirdupois : noun heaviness
- As in fatness : noun overweight
- But in mounting the steps his curiosity was awakened by the bulkiness of Linda's letter.
- Extract from : « Captain Desmond, V.C. » by Maud Diver
- They threshed about, the bulkiness of the fur clothing hampering them.
- Extract from : « The Time Traders » by Andre Norton
- The Greeks found no inconvenience, as we should, in the bulkiness of inscriptions as a means of keeping public records.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 6 » by Various
- Yellow clover is not a really good hay plant, owing to its lack of bulkiness.
- Extract from : « Clovers and How to Grow Them » by Thomas Shaw
- She tried on the wraps, and the hats which came up finally with Calvin staggering beneath the bulkiness of the box.
- Extract from : « The Trumpeter Swan » by Temple Bailey
- But ridicule which savours of bulkiness woman had better leave to our sublime sex.
- Extract from : « Glimpses of Bengal » by Sir Rabindranath Tagore
- According to the bulkiness of the peat, the fire-place should be roomy, as regards length and breadth.
- Extract from : « Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel » by Samuel William Johnson
- It is compactly made, and, in the generality of instances, exhibits anything but bulkiness.
- Extract from : « Nests and Eggs of Birds of The United States » by Thomas G. Gentry
- They are said to have called him the dumb one, or sometimes because of his bulkiness even as a youth, the dumb ox.
- Extract from : « The Thirteenth » by James J. Walsh
Antonyms for bulkiness
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