sinewy

sin·ew·y (s

)

adj.

a. Consisting of or resembling sinews.

b. Having many sinews; stringy and tough: a sinewy cut of beef.

2. Lean and muscular. See Synonyms at muscular.

3. Strong and vigorous: sinewy prose.

sinewy [ˈsɪnjʊɪ]

adj

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) consisting of or resembling a tendon or tendons

2. muscular; brawny

3. (esp of language, style, etc.) vigorous; forceful

4. (of meat, etc.) tough; stringy

sinewiness n

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Adj.	1.	sinewy - (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew unchewable, fibrous, stringy tough - resistant to cutting or chewing
	2.	sinewy - consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon tendinous
	3.	sinewy - (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms" brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"

sinewy

adjective muscular, strong, powerful, athletic, robust, wiry, brawny a short, sinewy young man

Translations

sinewy [ˈsɪnjuːɪ] ADJ

1. (= muscular) [person] → musculoso, fibroso; [body, arms, muscles] → nervudo, fibroso

2. (Culin) [of meat] → fibroso, con mucho nervio

3. (= vigorous) [music, performance, writing, style] → brioso, vigoroso

sinewy [ˈsɪnjuːi] adj → sec*(sèche)
a short, sinewy young man → un jeune homme sec et de petite taille

sinewy

adj → sehnig; (fig) plant, tree → knorrig; prose style → kraftvoll, kernig

sinewy [ˈsɪnjʊɪ] adj (person) → muscoloso/a; (meat) → pieno/a di nervi

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lanky
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nervosity
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nervousness
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Stringiness

Overgrowing the greater part of them, and climbing from one to another, is a wilderness of vines, in whose sinewy embrace many of the stones lie half-hidden, while in some places a thick growth of bushes entirely covers them.

Typee by Melville, Herman View in context

She washed his limbs; they were covered with thick hair; and when she dried his hands, even in his weakness they were strong and sinewy.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

A tomahawk and scalping knife, of English manufacture, were in his girdle; while a short military rifle, of that sort with which the policy of the whites armed their savage allies, lay carelessly across his bare and sinewy knee.

The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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