different between towering vs bulky
towering
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?????/
Verb
towering
- present participle of tower
Adjective
towering (comparative more towering, superlative most towering)
- Very tall or high, so as to dwarf 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.
- 1964, Look (volume 28, page 338)
- She is a towering girl with a husky baritone voice and a friendly and flamboyant style.
Translations
Noun
towering (plural towerings)
- The act or condition of being high above others.
- 1787, Robert Burns, letter to a friend
- 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.
- 1787, Robert Burns, letter to a friend
See also
- tower over
- towering inferno
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bulky
English
Etymology
From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?lki/
Adjective
bulky (comparative bulkier, superlative bulkiest)
- Being large in size, mass, or volume.
- Unwieldy.
- (bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Translations
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