MUSCLE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MUSCLE?

Need another word that means the same as “muscle”? Find 18 synonyms and 30 related words for “muscle” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Muscle” are: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew, musculus, muscleman, thew, strength, power, burliness, huskiness, influence, might, force, forcefulness, weight, potency

Muscle as a Noun

Definitions of "Muscle" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “muscle” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Physical power; strength.
• Authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way.
• A man or men exhibiting physical power or strength, typically employed to use or threaten violence.
• Power or influence, especially in a commercial or political sphere.
• One of the contractile organs of the body.
• A muscle or muscles when well developed or prominently visible under the skin.
• A band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body.
• Possessing muscular strength.
• A bully employed as a thug or bodyguard.
• Animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells.

Synonyms of "Muscle" as a noun (18 Words)

brawn	Physical strength in contrast to intelligence. A slice of brawn.
brawniness	Possessing muscular strength.
burliness	Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire.
force	The army navy and air force of a country. The force of his eloquence easily persuaded them.
forcefulness	Physical energy or intensity. A government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man.
heftiness	Possessing muscular strength.
huskiness	A throaty harshness.
influence	A person or thing with the capacity to have an influence on someone or something. The influence of television violence.
might	Physical strength.
muscleman	A bully employed as a thug or bodyguard. The drug lord had his muscleman to protect him.
muscularity	An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing. A remarkable muscularity of style.
musculus	One of the contractile organs of the body.
potency	The power or right to give orders or make decisions. She was given a low potency twice daily.
power	Holding an office means being in power. A red power tie.
sinew	A piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone; a tendon or ligament. The sinews of government.
strength	The potential of a hand to win tricks, arising from the number and type of high cards it contains. It s double the strength of your average beer.
thew	Muscles and tendons perceived as generating strength. She touched his magnificent thews.
weight	Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms. He was at least fifteen stone in weight.

Usage Examples of "Muscle" as a noun

• The calf muscle.
• The drug lord had his muscleman to protect him.
• An ex-marine of enormous proportions who'd been brought along as muscle.
• Many companies lack the financial muscle to adopt a more hard-nosed relationship with buyers.
• His muscles rippled beneath his tanned skin.
• The sheet of muscle between the abdomen and chest.
• He had muscle but no brains.
• The senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign.

Associations of "Muscle" (30 Words)

ache	Have a desire for something or someone who is not present. An ache in her heart.
afferent	An afferent nerve fibre or vessel. Afferent impulses.
ankle	The narrow part of the leg between the ankle joint and the calf. He ankled the series to do a movie.
bone	A bone of an animal with meat on it fed to a dog. He hauled his tired bones upright.
bony	Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. He held up his bony fingers.
brawn	Physical strength in contrast to intelligence. Pork brawn.
calf	Fine leather from the skin of a calf. A heifer calf.
contraction	(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber. The manufacturing sector suffered a severe contraction.
cramp	Fasten with a cramp or cramps. Cramp the wood.
dysphonia	Difficulty in speaking due to a physical disorder of the mouth, tongue, throat, or vocal cords.
extensor	A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.
flex	The act of flexing. A sing songy verse full of flexes and threats.
glycogen	A substance deposited in bodily tissues as a store of carbohydrates. It is a polysaccharide which forms glucose on hydrolysis.
gristle	Tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults.
haggard	A haggard hawk. Alex s haggard face.
hamstring	Cripple by cutting the hamstring. He pulled a hamstring.
knee	The joint in other animals that corresponds or is analogous to the human knee. She kneed him in the groin.
lap	A hanging flap on a garment or a saddle. The cat lapped up the milk.
muscular	Having a robust muscular body build characterized by predominance of structures bone and muscle and connective tissue developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer. A muscular economy.
osseous	Consisting of or turned into bone; ossified. Osseous tissue.
paralyze	Cause to be paralyzed and immobile. The poison paralyzed him.
sinew	A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment. The sinews in her neck.
sinewy	(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew. The language is spare and sinewy.
skeletal	Existing only in outline or as a framework of something. A skeletal plot for a novel.
spasm	Prolonged involuntary muscle contraction. A spasm of coughing woke him.
stiffen	Severely restrict in scope or extent. Stiffen the regulations.
tendinous	Consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon. The tendinous portion of the hamstring.
twitch	Use a twitch to subdue a horse. He twitched a cigarette out of a packet.