brawny

brawny
    adj 1: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight;
           rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular
           boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: {brawny}, {hefty},
           {muscular}, {powerful}, {sinewy}]
    

Brawny \Brawn"y\, a.
   Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.
   "Brawny limbs." --W. Irving.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic;
        stalwart; powerful; robust.
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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