bulk

1. 1.

   stick out or up

   “The parcel bulked in the sack”

   Broaderbulge
2. 2.

   cause to bulge or swell outwards

   Synonymsbulge

   Broaderswell

Other forms of bulk

plural

bulks·

past tense

bulked·

present participle

bulking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bulk

What does bulk mean?

bulk means "the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bulk?

bulk has 1 syllable: bulk. In IPA it is /ˈbʌlk/.

What is another word for bulk?

Close synonyms include majority, mass, volume, bulge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bulk a common word?

bulk is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.