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muscular
What does muscular mean?
muscular (adjective): having or suggesting great physical power or force.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce muscular?
/ˈmʌskjəlɚ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does muscular come from?
Late 17th century; from muscle (Latin mūsculus) + -ar.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “muscular” mean?
having or suggesting great physical power or force
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elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional
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of considerable or relatively great size or extent
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happening at constant (especially short) intervals
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