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brawny

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of brawny

1 having muscles capable of exerting great physical force

  • the store manager always asked the brawniest person there to do the heavy lifting
Synonyms of brawny

muscular, rugged, sinewy, stalwart, stout, strong
Words Related to brawny

forceful, forcible, mighty, potent, powerful, puissant

able-bodied, athletic, fit, trim

beefy, burly, husky, strapping

masculine, virile

hard, inured, strengthened, sturdy, tough, toughened

energetic, energized, invigorated, lusty, red-blooded, robust, vigorous, vitalized

hale, healthy, hearty, sound
Near Antonyms of brawny

challenged, disabled, incapacitated, paralyzed

impotent, powerless

puny, slight, small, unathletic, unfit, unhealthy
Antonyms of brawny

delicate, feeble, frail, weak, weakling, wimpy

2 marked by a well-developed musculature

  • brawny arms that werenʼt developed in the gym but by years of work in the construction business
Synonyms of brawny

muscular, sinewy
Words Related to brawny

wiry

powerful, strong

beefy, burly, hefty, hulking, husky

able-bodied, athletic, herculean, mighty, robust, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, sturdy

muscle-bound

sculpted
Near Antonyms of brawny

nonathletic

debilitated, delicate, effete, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, fragile, frail, weak, weakened, weakly, wimpy

light, lightweight, slight

lean, slender, slim, svelte, sylphlike, thin, willowy

emaciated, gaunt, lank, rawboned, scraggy, spare
Antonyms of brawny

scrawny, skinny

3 strongly and heavily built

  • a tough little boy who's going to be a brawny man someday
Synonyms of brawny

beefy, burly, hefty, hulking, husky, mesomorphic
Words Related to brawny

able-bodied, athletic, herculean, mighty, muscle-bound, muscular, powerful, robust, rugged, sinewy, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy

chunky, compact, heavy, heavyset, solid, squat, squatty, stocky, thickset

chubby, dumpy, lumpish, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby
Near Antonyms of brawny

lean, light, lightweight, slender, slight, slim, svelte, sylphlike, thin, willowy

bony (also boney), gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, lanky, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare, stringy, twiggy, waspish, weedy

spidery, wiry

debilitated, delicate, effete, emaciated, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, fragile, frail, infirm, puny, unathletic, weak, weakly, wimpy

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