muscle

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of MUSCLE

muscular strength <I'm going to need someone with real muscle to help me move all this furniture>

Synonyms beef, brawn, main, thew

Related Words force, might, potency, power, puissance, sinew; energy, vigor

Near Antonyms impotence, impotency, weakness; debilitation, debility, enfeeblement, faintness, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity

the ability to exert effort for the accomplishment of a task <at the time the military lacked the muscle to fight two wars at once>

Synonyms energy, firepower, force, horsepower, might, muscle, potence, potency, puissance, sinew, strength, vigor

Near Antonyms disability, inability, inaptitude, incapability, incapableness, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency; ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, uselessness; helplessness, paralysis

Antonyms impotence, impotency, powerlessness, weakness

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