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muscular
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris in the 17th century.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?s.kj?.l?/, /?m?s.kj?.l?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?s.kj?.l?/, /?m?s.kju.l?/
Adjective
muscular (comparative more muscular, superlative most muscular)
- Of, relating to, or connected with muscles.
- Brawny, thewy, having strength.
- Synonyms: athletic, beefy, brawny, husky, lusty, muscled, muscly, powerful, strapping, strong
- Having large, well-developed muscles.
- Synonyms: beefy, brawny, buff, husky, musclebound, muscled, muscly, powerfully built, swole, well-built
- (figuratively) Robust, strong.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- myo-
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /mus.ku?la/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /mus.ku?la?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Adjective
muscular (masculine and feminine plural musculars)
- muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)
Related terms
- múscul
Further reading
- “muscular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “muscular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “muscular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “muscular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Adjective
muscular m or f (plural musculares)
- muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)
Related terms
- músculo
Further reading
- “muscular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua
Adjective
muscular (not comparable)
- muscular
Related terms
- musculo
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mu?.ku.?la?/
- Hyphenation: mus?cu?lar
Adjective
muscular m or f (plural musculares, comparable)
- muscular (of or relating to muscles)
Related terms
- músculo
Romanian
Etymology
From French musculaire
Adjective
muscular m or n (feminine singular muscular?, masculine plural musculari, feminine and neuter plural musculare)
- muscular
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or New Latin m?scul?ris
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /musku?la?/, [mus.ku?la?]
Adjective
muscular (plural musculares)
- muscular (of, relating to, or connected with muscles)
Derived terms
- fortalecimiento muscular
- perimuscular
- tono muscular
Related terms
- músculo
Further reading
- “muscular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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rugged
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English rugged, roggyd, ruggyd, derived from Old Norse r?gg (“tuft, shagginess”), equivalent to rug (“rough, woollen material”) +? -ed. Compare Old Swedish ruggoter (“wrinkled”), Swedish rugga (“to roughen”), Swedish ruggig (“shaggy”), Icelandic rögg (“shagginess”), Old Norse raggaðr (“tufted”), dialectal Danish raggad (“shaggy”).
Pronunciation
- r?-g?d, IPA(key): /?????d/
Adjective
rugged (comparative ruggeder, superlative ruggedest)
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Roughing It, Chapter LXV
- By and by, after a rugged climb, we halted on the summit of a hill which commanded a far-reaching view.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Roughing It, Chapter LXV
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- 2011, Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair
- Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.
- 2011, Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair
- Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- 2010, Arthur Queen Jr., Young Man: Ageless Fatherly Wisdom to Hold
- Many women and men delude themselves into thinking that only the hardest and most rugged man is attractive and to many it may be the case.
- 2010, Arthur Queen Jr., Young Man: Ageless Fatherly Wisdom to Hold
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- 2013, Vicky Baker in The Guardian, Riding with the cowboys on a Mexico ranch
- Hidden within 30,000 acres of rugged private land, the ranch is cocooned by peaks and canyons in all directions.
- 2013, Vicky Baker in The Guardian, Riding with the cowboys on a Mexico ranch
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard; crabbed
- Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; rough to the ear
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- 1909, Jack London, Martin Eden
- "Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength..."
- 1909, Jack London, Martin Eden
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- 2011, Nick Fletcher, Psion drops 2% after supply chain issues push it into loss
- Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red.
- 2011, Nick Fletcher, Psion drops 2% after supply chain issues push it into loss
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- rugged in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- rugged at OneLook Dictionary Search
Etymology 2
rug +? -ed
Pronunciation
- r?gd, IPA(key): /???d/
Adjective
rugged (not comparable)
- Having a rug or rugs.
- Covered with a rug.
Verb
rugged
- simple past tense and past participle of rug
Anagrams
- Dugger, Gudger, grudge, gurged
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