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Muscularity

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mus·cu·lar  (msky-lr)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or consisting of muscle: muscular contraction.
2. Having well-developed muscles: a muscular build.
3. Having or suggesting great forcefulness, especially at the expense of subtlety: muscular reasoning that does not bother with the finer points; muscular advocacy groups.

[From Latin msculus, muscle; see muscle.]

muscu·lari·ty (-lr-t) n.
muscu·lar·ly adv.
Synonyms: muscular, athletic, brawny, burly, sinewy
These adjectives mean strong and powerfully built: a muscular build; an athletic swimmer; brawny arms; a burly stevedore; a lean and sinewy frame.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.muscularity - the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle
physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state - the condition or state of the body or bodily functions
2.muscularity - possessing muscular strength
strength - the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength"
3.Muscularitymuscularity - an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"
sprightliness, liveliness, spirit, life - animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
verve, vitality - an energetic style


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His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.
Science has done away with the triumph of muscularity.
You have overdone it, with the result that the court of mystery is peopled by a dozen brutes of awful muscularity, and scarcely enough brain among the dozen to equip three properly.
 
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