brawny

3 definitions found

brawny - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Brawny \Brawn"y\, a.
     Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.
     "Brawny limbs." --W. Irving.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic;
          stalwart; powerful; robust.
          [1913 Webster]

brawny - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  brawny
      adj 1: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight;
             rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular
             boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: brawny, hefty,
             muscular, powerful, sinewy]

brawny - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "brawny":
     able-bodied, adipose, athletic, beefy, big-bellied, bloated,
     blowzy, bosomy, broad-shouldered, bulky, burly, buxom, chubby,
     chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full,
     gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, husky, imposing, lusty, meaty,
     mighty, muscle-bound, muscular, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump,
     podgy, portly, potbellied, powerful, pudgy, puffy, pursy,
     red-blooded, robust, roly-poly, rotund, sinewy, square, squat,
     squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, swollen,
     thewy, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tough, tubby, vigorous,
     vital, well-built, well-fed, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up,
     wiry