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Bulk (countable and uncountable; plural Bulks)
  1. Size, mass or volume.
  2. The major part of something.
  3. (food) The result of water retained by fibre.
  4. (uncountable) (transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
  5. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
  6. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
  7. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.


Bulk (comparative bulkier, superlative bulkiest)

  1. being large in size, mass or volume


Bulk (third-person singular simple present Bulks, present participle Bulking, simple past and past participle Bulked)

  1. to be, or appear to be, massive
  2. to grow in size; to swell or expand

Adjectives for Bulk

grotesque; enormous; huge; tremendous great; black; haughty; proper; mastodonic insufficient; surging; tawny; cumbrous low; broad; shadowy; imposing; shaggy massive; shattered; considerable; vast; languid; full; voluptuous; overgrown; ugly wavering; helpless; insufficient; ponderous credent; colossal; crude; patched; bluff terrifying; faceless; non-irritating; Ama-zonian; flying; clean-limbed; portly; physical; crushing; overwhelming; threatening.

Adverbs for Bulk

enormously; heavily; cumbrously; over-whelmingly; threateningly; ponderously; terrifyingly; portentously.

Related terms


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From Middle English bolke (a heap, cargo, hold), from Old Norse búlki (the freight or the cargo of a ship), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (beam, pile, heap), from Proto-Indo-European *bhelǵ- (beam, pile, prop), related to Icelandic búlkast (to be bulky), Swedish dialectal bulk (a bunch), Danish bulk (bump, knob). Conflated with Middle English bouk (belly, trunk), from Old English būc (belly, stomach, pitcher), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (belly, body), from Proto-Indo-European *bhōw- (to blow, swell), related to Dutch buik (belly), German Bauch (belly, stomach), Swedish buk (belly, abdomen). More at bouk, bucket.




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