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View usage for: (hʌlkɪŋ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]You use hulking to describe a person or object that is extremely large, heavy, or slow-moving, especially when they seem threatening in some way. When I woke up there was a hulking figure staring down at me. He came upon the hulking redbrick hospital. Synonyms: ungainly, massive, lumbering, gross More Synonyms of hulking hulking in British English (ˈhʌlkɪŋ) adjectivebig and ungainly Also: hulky hulking in American English (ˈhʌlkɪŋ) adjective large, heavy, and often unwieldy or clumsy : also ˈhulky (ˌhʌlki) Examples of 'hulking' in a sentencehulking With women and with everything else that mattered in her life, but the fact was Livvy made her feel hulking, too.It was incredible that this hulking man was once three feet tall.He did not speak nor did she, but in this great hulking Norseman she was assured of a friend. Definition big and ungainly When I woke up there was a hulking figure staring down at me. Synonyms overgrown clunky (informal) lubberlyunco (Australian, slang) Additional synonymsDefinition clumsy or ungainly She made an awkward gesture with her hands. Synonyms clumsy, stiff, rude, blundering, coarse, bungling, lumbering, inept, unskilled, bumbling, unwieldy, ponderous, ungainly, gauche, gawky, uncouth, unrefined, artless, inelegant, uncoordinated, graceless, cack-handed (informal), unpolished, clownish, oafish, inexpert, maladroit, all thumbs, ungraceful, skill-less, unskilful, butterfingered (informal), unhandy, ham-fisted or ham-handed (informal), unco (Australian, slang) Definition very large and massive, esp. so as to be unwieldy a bulky man with balding hair Synonyms large, big, huge, heavy, massive, enormous, substantial, immense, mega (slang), very large, mammoth, colossal, cumbersome, weighty, hulking, unwieldy, ponderous, voluminous, unmanageable, elephantine, massy, ginormous (informal), humongous or humungous (informal) Definition lacking in skill or physical coordination I'd never seen a clumsier, less coordinated boxer. Synonyms awkward, blundering, bungling, lumbering, inept, bumbling, ponderous, ungainly, gauche, accident-prone, gawky, heavy, uncoordinated, cack-handed (informal), inexpert, maladroit, ham-handed (informal), like a bull in a china shop, klutzy (US, Canadian, slang), unskilful, butterfingered (informal), ham-fisted (informal), unco (Australian, slang) - hugger-mugger
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