muscular

Etymology

Late 17th century from musculous + -ar.

adj

  1. (relational) Of, relating to, or connected with muscles.
  2. Brawny, thewy, having strength.
  3. Having large, well-developed muscles.
  4. (figurative) Robust, strong.
    Future prime ministers may struggle to replicate the sort of muscular countrywide support that [Narendra] Modi was able to earn. 9 July 2014, Samanth Subramanian, “India after English?”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 2019-09-10
  5. Full-bodied
    muscular wine

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