brawny | Definition of brawny

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 weren't developed in the gym but by years of work in the construction business

Synonyms of brawny

muscular, sinewy

Words Related to brawny

powerful, strong

beefy, burly, hefty, hulking, husky

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

Near Antonyms of brawny

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