 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
brawny
adjective: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight;
rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular
boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: {hefty}, {muscular}, {powerful},
{sinewy}]
[also: {brawniest}, {brawnier}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brawny \Brawn"y\, adjective
Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.
''Brawny limbs.'' --W. Irving.
Syn: Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic;
stalwart; powerful; robust.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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