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Towering vs Bulky - What's the difference?

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Towering is a related term of bulky.


As adjectives the difference between towering and bulky

is that towering is very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it while bulky is being large in size, mass, or volume.

As a verb towering

is .

As a noun towering

is the act or condition of being high above others.

towering

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Marc Vesty, work=BBC
  • , title= Stoke 0-2 Fulham , passage=And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or condition of being high above others.
  • * 1829 , John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors
  • Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings , or are left behind in envy or despair.
  • * (Robert Burns)
  • But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.

    See also

    * tower over * towering inferno

    bulky

    English

    Adjective

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