muscular
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin mūsculāris in the 17th century.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
muscular (comparative more muscular, superlative most muscular)
- Of, relating to, or connected with muscles.
- 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “The Escape of the Dead”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 18:
- It was an effort of the mind, of the will, of the nerves; not muscular, for I could not move even so much as my little finger, but none the less mighty for all that.
- Brawny, thewy, having strength.
- 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 43:
- It was a strange figure—like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, [...] The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength.
- Having large, well-developed muscles.
- Synonyms: beefy, brawny, buff, husky, musclebound, muscled, muscly, powerfully built, swole, well-built
- (figurative) Robust, strong.
- 2014 July 9, Samanth Subramanian, “India after English?”, in The New York Review of Books[1], archived from the original on 10 September 2019:
- Future prime ministers may struggle to replicate the sort of muscular countrywide support that [Narendra] Modi was able to earn.
Derived terms
- Becker muscular dystrophy
- bimuscular
- cardiomuscular
- corticomuscular
- cutaneomuscular
- electromuscular
- epimuscular
- epitheliomuscular
- extramuscular
- faciomuscular
- faradomuscular
- fibromuscular
- hepatocardiomuscular
- hypermuscular
- idiomuscular
- intermuscular
- intramuscular
- ligamentomuscular
- most muscular
- muscular Christianity
- muscular dystrophy
- muscular endurance
- muscularity
- muscularize
- muscularly
- muscularness
- muscular pile
- nervomuscular
- neuromuscular
- nonmuscular
- osseomuscular
- osteomuscular
- paramuscular
- perimuscular
- premuscular
- promuscular
- psychoneuromuscular
- retromuscular
- seromuscular
- skeletomuscular
- submuscular
- tendinomuscular
- tendomuscular
- transmuscular
- unimuscular
- unmuscular
Related terms
Translations
of or relating to muscles
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having strength
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having large, well-developed muscles
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(figuratively) strong, robust
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See also
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin mūsculāris
Pronunciation
Adjective
muscular m or f (masculine and feminine plural musculars)
- muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)
Related terms
Further reading
- “muscular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “muscular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “muscular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “muscular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Adjective
muscular m or f (plural musculares)
- muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)
Related terms
Further reading
- “muscular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Interlingua
Adjective
muscular (not comparable)
Related terms
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin mūsculāris
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mus‧cu‧lar
Adjective
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- muscular (of or relating to muscles)
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin mūsculāris
Pronunciation
Adjective
muscular m or f (masculine and feminine plural musculares)
- muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “muscular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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