'Muscular' definitions:
Definition of 'muscular'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to or consisting of muscle; "muscular contraction"
adjective
Having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer [syn: mesomorphic, muscular] [ant: ectomorphic, endomorphic, pyknic]
adjective
Having or suggesting great physical power or force; "the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"
adjective
Definition of 'Muscular'
From: GCIDE
- Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber. [1913 Webster]
- Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. "The muscular motion." --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm. [1913 Webster]
- Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state. --T. Hughes.
- Muscular Christianity. (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
- Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability; contractility.
- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'muscular'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- able-bodied,
- athletic,
- beefy,
- brawny,
- broad-shouldered,
- burly,
- elastic,
- fibrous,
- flexible,
- Herculean,
- husky,
- mighty,
- muscle-bound,
- powerful,
- resilient,
- robust,
- ropy,
- rugged,
- sinewy,
- springy,
- stalwart,
- stout,
- strapping,
- stringy,
- strong,
- sturdy,
- supple,
- thewy,
- thickset,
- well-built,
- well-knit,
- well-set,
- well-set-up,
- wiry
Words containing 'Muscular'
- Muscularity,
- Muscularize,
- Muscularly,
- Muscular Christian,
- Muscular Christianity,
- Muscular excitability,
- Muscular sense,
- Muscular work,
- muscular contraction,
- muscular dystrophy,
- muscular structure,
- muscular tissue,
- muscular tonus,
- Electro-muscular,
- Incoordination of muscular movement,
- Progressive muscular atrophy,
- becker muscular dystrophy,
- distal muscular dystrophy,
- duchenne's muscular dystrophy,
- myotonic muscular dystrophy,
- oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy,
- limb-girdle muscular dystrophy