bulgy

1 4.3

Sticking out in a rounded way

adjective
/ˈbʌl.dʒi/

: abultado

So you're going to see this outward shin curve and then you're going to see like a much bulgier curve in the back for his calf.
bulgy eyes

Examples

She has seen her daughter only once since the night she, Sand, got home from her shift at the video store to a dark apartment, nothing cooking, and then the sheet of paper torn from a spiral notebook, the bulgy, slightly backslanting script, "I've decided to go stay with my dad for a while."

Fiction book (1999)
He's so bulgy.

Super Troopers (2001)
Yeah, I think if they were just flat black or if they were a little less bulgy, I would be into it.
But she could already see Jack's face in the bulgy softness of its sides.

Fiction book (1999)
It's like it was, it was they were unsightly bulges, bulgy mocap guy.
So if Earth were just a perfectly smooth sphere with water on it, the water would be bulgy around the equator and it'd be thinnest near the poles.
Getting fat but not a good fat, not the nice middle-aged general thickening of someone like Per-no, an unpleasant unhealthy fat, which he denies with tight clothes and holds in with a belt and bow tie so that it seems even more obtrusive, bulgy, bulbous, ugly.

Fiction book (1996)
The frog's bulgy eyes made it look quite funny as it stared at us.
She wore a dress that was bulgy at the waist, accentuating her figure.
The old sofa had bulgy cushions that sagged in the middle.

Synonyms

puffy

vsbulgy

51 2.2

Rounded and soft in shape, often filled with air or soft material

is a hardened rounded protrusion rather than a soft inflated swell

bulbous

vsbulgy

10 5.5

Having a round, swollen shape like a bulb

is the rounded protrusion without the bulb-like comparison

bellied

vsbulgy

9 5.6

Having a rounded shape that sticks out from the middle of the body

is a rounded protrusion not necessarily shaped like a belly

bulging

vsbulgy

2 3.6

Sticking out in a rounded shape because something inside pushes

is the general rounded protrusion without specifying internal pressure

protuberant

vsbulgy

1 8.4

Sticks out from a surface in a round or curved way

is the rounded outward form rather than general sticking out

bellying

vsbulgy

7.6

It curves outward in the middle to form a rounded bulge

is a rounded outward shape without implying a belly form

protruding

vsbulgy

4.2

Sticking out from a surface like a nail or branch

is the rounded, swelling kind of sticking out rather than plain jutting

puffed

vsbulgy

3.0

A part of clothing gathered to form a rounded shape that sticks out

is a general body or solid rounded protrusion, not fabric shaping

Antonyms

flat

797 1.0

Level and even without parts higher or lower

concave

5 5.2

Curved inward like the inside of a bowl or spoon

How Bulgy

protruding

4.2

bulgy

1 4.3

rounded

1 2.4

flat

797 1.0

Surface Forms

bulgy positive

bulgier comparative

bulgiest superlative

Morphology

bulgy = bulge (transparent) = bulge + y

The adjective 'bulgy' is transparently derived from the noun 'bulge' with the suffix '-y' indicating a quality or state.

Etymology

Bulgy comes from the word bulge, which means 'a rounded swelling', plus the ending -y that means 'full of' or 'having'. So something bulgy sticks out in a round way, like a full balloon or a pocket that is too full.