muscular

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1. muscular - Adjective

2. muscular - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.

Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.

Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.

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In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does. Hermann von Helmholtz

That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled. George Eliot

I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this. Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. Annie Dillard

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. Audre Lorde

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