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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
muscular
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
muscular build
▪ These exercises will help you achieve a strong muscular build.
muscular dystrophy
muscular (=with big muscles)
▪ His chest was tanned and muscular.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ The older boy, leaner and more muscular, has shorter hair and a small skull-cap which may conceal a tonsure.
▪ No mistaking her-a taller, more muscular version of Kathy.
▪ A smooth young man's body, more muscular than she had expected.
▪ She performed her hit Music, looking more muscular than ever.
▪ The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables.
▪ A long, sleek C-pillar gave the car a more muscular look and the side scoops became bigger and wider.
▪ The boy's body will take on the squarer, more muscular appearance of manhood.
■ NOUN
body
▪ But for some reason the thought of dark, obsidian eyes and a powerful, muscular body kept getting in the way.
▪ Involuntarily, Margaret thought of Jack's muscular body last night.
▪ She lost her balance and fell against him, feeling the muscular body tense and brace itself to stop her falling further.
▪ He followed her down, trapping her against the upholstered arm and his hard muscular body.
▪ He is good-looking with floppy black hair, brown eyes and a lean muscular body.
build
▪ I agree with points raised in the correspondence regarding muscular build raising suspicion of abuse.
dystrophy
▪ Claims must be made within two years of the child's birth, or four in the case of muscular dystrophy.
▪ In the early 1980s, her son Peter died at 15 of muscular dystrophy.
▪ Absence of the carboxy terminus of dystrophin is associated with severe phenotypes in most muscular dystrophy patients.
▪ Sufian had one client with muscular dystrophy who needed to take every Wednesday off work, so he could rest his muscles.
▪ In only a few cases, such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, has the gene and its protein been identified.
▪ In 1847 he described two boys with what was obviously pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy, described twenty-one years later by Guillaume Duchenne.
▪ He has raised money for muscular dystrophy charities.
▪ The researchers hope that their results will allow them to initiate studies in humans with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
leg
▪ Her nightgown had ridden up around her waist, and she enjoyed feeling his hard, muscular legs entwined around hers.
▪ He looked well-built, with barrel chest, thin waist, and long, thin, muscular legs and pronounced knee bulges.
▪ A muscular leg came up and trapped hers beneath it.
▪ Major Hartley-Harrington's widow was a big, brusque woman, with muscular legs and a nose she could look down.
man
▪ The other was a heavily-built, muscular man with a lobster nose and none of his sister's lost beauty.
▪ With the silky cover beneath her back, Virginia blinked up at the dark, muscular man above her.
▪ He was a heavy muscular man of about sixty.
tension
▪ Not only had he spotted excessive muscular tension throughout his body, but now he thought he knew how to correct it.
▪ A trained and skilled practitioner can tailor a session to treat insomnia by reducing muscular tension and promoting relaxation.
▪ We start to lose control of our minds in the same way that muscular tension is often out of our control.
▪ The trouble is that anything you do, nomatterwhat, will nearly always increase the muscular tension and make the situation worse.
▪ This always increases muscular tension which is the very opposite of what you are trying to achieve.
▪ But holding these positions creates muscular tension which, ultimately, replaces one habit with another.
▪ They make no attempt to explore the cause of those tears, concentrating instead on living without muscular tension.
▪ This will ease the muscular tension in the neck so that the chin drops towards the chest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
muscular pain
▪ a tall, muscular man
▪ He had broad shoulders and muscular arms.
▪ He kept his firm muscular body in shape with an hour's run every morning.
▪ It requires a lot of muscular control.
▪ She liked men who were tall and muscular.
▪ You should see him, he's really muscular.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was a large, quiet man with the most amazing muscular development I have ever seen.
▪ He was looking right at me as he said all this: handsome, muscular, preppy.
▪ Involuntarily, Margaret thought of Jack's muscular body last night.
▪ It is a muscular organ, which, when it contracts, forces the urine down the urethra.
▪ The child with high myopia is also at risk of further visual deterioration from muscular haemorrhage or retinal detachment.
▪ The older boy, leaner and more muscular, has shorter hair and a small skull-cap which may conceal a tonsure.
▪ The trouble is that anything you do, nomatterwhat, will nearly always increase the muscular tension and make the situation worse.
▪ They lay side by side, doing their relaxation exercises - deep breathing and total muscular relaxation from the feet up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muscular

Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.

    Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. ``The muscular motion.''
    --Arbuthnot.

  3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm. Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state. --T. Hughes. Muscular Christianity.

    1. The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters.
      --T. Hughes.

    2. An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one.
      --C. Kingsley.

      Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability; contractility.

      Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
muscular

1680s, "pertaining to muscles," from Latin musculus (see muscle (n.)) + -ar. Earlier in same sense was musculous (early 15c.). Meaning "having well-developed muscles" is from 1736. Muscular Christianity (1857) is originally in reference to philosophy of Anglican clergyman and novelist Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). Muscular dystrophy attested from 1886.

Wiktionary
muscular

a. 1 Of, relating to, or connected with muscles. 2 brawny, thewy, having strength. 3 Having large, well-developed muscles. 4 (context figurative English) strong, robust.

WordNet
muscular
  1. adj. of or relating to or consisting of muscle; "muscular contraction"

  2. having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer [syn: mesomorphic] [ant: ectomorphic, endomorphic]

  3. having or suggesting great physical power or force; "the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"

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

Wikipedia
MUSCULAR (surveillance program)

MUSCULAR (DS-200B), located in the United Kingdom, is the name of a surveillance programme jointly operated by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that was revealed by documents which were released by Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. GCHQ is the primary operator of the program. GCHQ and the National Security Agency have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google. Substantive information about the program was made public at the end of October 2013.

Usage examples of "muscular".

He was put upon a tonic and alterative course of treatment, which also embraced the use of such medicines as have been found to exert a specific, tonic action upon the muscular tissues of the heart.

Using it as a club, he began hammering disrespectfully on the nearest Anointed, a male teenager with muscular shoulders and a terrible bone-deep wound across the entire front of his body, which had probably killed him.

Physostigmine, indeed, stimulates nearly all the non-striped muscles in the body, and this action upon the muscular coats of the arteries, and especially of the arterioles, causes a great rise in blood-pressure shortly after its absorption, which is very rapid.

Ralph Bales was thirty-nine, muscular, hairy everywhere but on the head.

He was a big, muscular moron wearing a polka-dot propeller beanie and a blue uniform with epaulets, a gun holster and, of course, a gun.

Over the summer cycles that I lived with the Barringswoods, we all watched Beel grow and become quite muscular.

All four of them were specimens of that stalwart race that commands so high a price in the African market, and in spite of the emaciation induced by their recent sufferings, their muscular, well-knit frames betokened a strong and healthy constitution.

His long raven hair was tied back with a beaded red headband, his muscular thighs concealed by the fringed leather leggings, his biceps accented by the twin silver bracelets with the twinkling turquoise stones.

New jeans displayed long, muscular legs and what her friends called a bitable ass.

As he stared at the broken bauble, the big, muscular man began to cry and moan of how the Holy See and its chosen captain, di Bolgia, had ruined him and Munster, driving loyal bonaghts and galloglaiches and even noble FitzGerald kinsmen away from their loving sovran, leaving him and Munster now defenseless except for craven, money-grubbing oversea mercenaries, with no true loyalty of bravery in them not reckoned in grams of gold and ounces of silver.

All humans had repeat sequences, the presence of which were associated with various diseases: spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, fragile X mental retardation, myotonic dystrophy, Huntington disease, spinocerebrellar ataxia, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, and Machado-Joseph disease.

He declared that he could swallow a bowl of punch and two mugs of bumbo without any difficulty whatever, and told a long tale of how, being in Wapping, he had a fierce toothache and could find no one but a woman to pull the rogue, which she did with so muscular an arm that he thought she must be a man in disguise, until inquiring further he found that she was a woman indeed.

In among them darted a small, muscular man impossible to hit, tearing men from their saddle and silencing them with cestus or clawed glove.

Her eyes occasionally meet those of Chugger, the muscular drummer, and the both of them smile in secret simpatico, so comfortable in the rhythm section, unenvious of the melody spinners.

He was a wild-looking animal, robust and muscular, who weighed seventeen pounds in his winter coat, which had just now molted enough to reveal stout, cobby legs and devastating paws.