| 单词 | muscular |
| 释义 | muscular (once / 704 pages) adj If you're strong and athletic, with powerfully developed muscles, you can describe yourself as muscular. Weight lifters are muscular, and so is the Incredible Hulk. If your grandmother has worked as a cattle farmer her entire life, she is probably pretty muscular too. Anyone with strong muscles can be described as muscular. In the 1600's, the word simply meant "pertaining to muscles," but by the mid-1700's, muscular specifically referred to well-developed muscles. The root word is the Latin musculus, which, oddly enough, means both "muscle" and "little mouse." WORD FAMILYmuscular: intramuscular, muscularity, muscularly+/intramuscular: intramuscularly/muscle: muscled, muscles, muscling, muscular USAGE EXAMPLESThe business analyst, originally from Sweden, battled through illness, bad weather and muscular pain to surpass Ms Fleming's record. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) Here’s an idea: Update part of the approval process that was patient zero for distorting data on a drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) These works drew comparisons to muscular abstract paintings by Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov and others. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer Syn|Ant mesomorphic athletic having a sturdy and well proportioned body ectomorphic having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs endomorphic, pyknichaving a squat and fleshy build asthenichaving a slender physique fathaving an (over)abundance of flesh lean, thinlacking excess flesh 2adj (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful a muscular boxer Syn brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy strong having strength or power greater than average or expected 3adj of or relating to or consisting of muscle muscular contraction 4adj having or suggesting great physical power or force the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony Syn powerful having great power or force or potency or effect |
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