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Bulky vs Monstrous - What's the difference?

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Bulky is a related term of monstrous.


As adjectives the difference between bulky and monstrous

is that bulky is being large in size, mass, or volume while monstrous is hideous or frightful.

bulky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Being large in size, mass, or volume.
  • Unwieldy
  • (bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
  • monstrous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • hideous or frightful
  • * Shakespeare
  • So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
  • enormously large
  • a monstrous height
    a monstrous ox
  • freakish or grotesque
  • * John Locke
  • a monstrous birth
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
  • of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters
  • * Milton
  • Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
  • (obsolete) marvellous; strange
  • Synonyms

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