Antonyms for muscular
ˈmʌs kyə lərmus·cu·lar

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1. muscularadjective

   Brawny, having strength.

   Synonyms:
   strong, athletic, muscled, powerful, lusty, brawny, husky, beefy, muscly, strapping

2. muscularadjective

   Having large, well-developed muscles.

   Synonyms:
   husky, powerfully built, beefy, muscly, muscled, well-built, musclebound, brawny, heavily

3. muscularadjective

   Synonyms:
   myo-

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. muscular

   Antonyms:
   debile, flabby, feeble, lanky

   Synonyms:
   powerful, brawny, robust, sinewy, strong, stalwart, athletic, lusty, sturdy

Matched Categories

1. • Anatomy

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. muscularadjective

   of or relating to or consisting of muscle

   "muscular contraction"

   Antonyms:
   powerless, weak

   Synonyms:
   mesomorphic, powerful, sinewy, hefty, brawny

2. mesomorphic, muscularadjective

   having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer

   Antonyms:
   powerless, weak

   Synonyms:
   mesomorphic, powerful, sinewy, hefty, brawny

3. muscularadjective

   having or suggesting great physical power or force

   "the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"

   Antonyms:
   powerless, weak

   Synonyms:
   mesomorphic, powerful, sinewy, hefty, brawny

4. brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewyadjective

   (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

   "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

   Antonyms:
   weak, powerless

   Synonyms:
   brawny, potent, powerful, unchewable, sizable, sizeable, stringy, hefty, fibrous, healthy, mesomorphic, tendinous, respectable, sinewy, knock-down(a), goodly, goodish, herculean, tidy

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1. muscularadjective

   Synonyms:
   brawny, thewy, sinewy, stalwart

How to use muscular in a sentence?

1. Laura Van Doormaal:

   When we first took her home, we were in newborn bliss. Just absolutely in love with her. She was a great baby, but we started to realize her movement was declining. She had trouble breathing and eating. When she was five weeks old, she was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy.

2. Evan Weber:

   Chuck Schumer world includes both him reading the tea leaves about potential threats to his own political career in New York, with its muscular left infrastructure, securing victory after victory, but I also think that he may be reading the tea leaves for his party more broadly, and knowing that if they can deliver on these things, it both helps Senate Democrats win and keeps Senate Democrats in power as the The Senate majority leader.

3. David Harris:

   They all have different goals and objectives based on their interests and health status. But if I were to pick a common thread it is the following: the need to de-stress through workouts that challenge their neurological, cardiovascular and muscular systems, popular trends are self-limiting exercises, ones that you can use your body as leverage and resistance against yourself.

4. Niki Caro:

   It’s a big, girlie martial arts epic. It will be extremely muscular and thrilling and entertaining and moving.

5. Emmanuel Audenaert:

   Severe muscular training and high loading activities should be restricted until skeletal maturity for any joint and sport.

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