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