Definitions for muscular

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muscular mus·cu·lar

Spelling: [muhs-kyuh-ler]

IPA: /ˈmʌs kyə lər/

Muscular is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in muscular (aclmrsuu).

Definitions for muscular

adjective

1. of or relating to muscle or the muscles:
2. dependent on or affected by the muscles:
3. having well-developed muscles; brawny.
4. vigorously and forcefully expressed, executed, performed, etc., as if by the use of a great deal of muscular power:
5. broad and energetic, especially with the implication that subtlety and grace are lacking:
6. reflected in physical activity and work:
7. Informal. having or showing power; powerful:

Origin of muscular

1675-85; Latin mūscul(us) muscle + -ar¹

Examples for muscular

But Modred was in the pride of youth; muscular and sinewy was the frame of Modred.

He knew the power in her lean, muscular arms, the strength in her narrow shoulders.

He landed on his hands and feet like some huge, muscular cat.

Turns out, the drug may help sufferers of a rare and deadly form of muscular dystrophy.

A little, muscular, brown man, with black hair and white teeth.

Men, she says, maintain their muscular strength by military service.

Square-jawed and muscular—in snapshots he looks like Channing Tatum in camo—Gibbs seemed to fit the mold of the ideal soldier.

He had not touched a muscle or a muscular nerve; what then was the nature of these movements?

In the first, we met two muscular young men, almost naked and smeared with a blood-like substance.

What these men do have is a muscular hold on popular disgust with religious extremism.