bulging

bulging
    adj 1: curving or bulging outward [syn: {convex}, {bulging}]
           [ant: {concave}]
    2: curving outward [syn: {bellied}, {bellying}, {bulbous},
       {bulging}, {bulgy}, {protuberant}]
    

bulging \bulging\ adj.
   1. curving or bulging outward. Opposite of {concave}.
      [Narrower terms: {biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular,
      lentiform}; {broken-backed, hogged}; {convexo-concave};
      {gibbous, gibbose}; {planoconvex}] Also See: {protrusive}.

   Syn: convex.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. curving outward.

   Syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

Bulge \Bulge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bulged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bulging}.]
   1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it
      yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall
      bulges.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
      [1913 Webster]

            And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
                                                  --Broome.
      [1913 Webster]
    

63 Moby Thesaurus words for "bulging":
      SRO, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellied, bellying, bellylike,
      billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, brimful, brimming, bulbose,
      bulbous, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bursting, capacity,
      chock-full, chuck-full, congested, convex, cram-full, crammed,
      distended, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, hillocky,
      hummocky, jam-packed, moutonnee, overfull, overstuffed, packed,
      packed like sardines, plenary, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching,
      ready to burst, replete, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out,
      satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed,
      surfeited, swelling, swollen, topful, verrucated, verrucose,
      warty