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Muscular vs Masculine - What's the difference?

muscular | masculine |

As adjectives the difference between muscular and masculine

is that muscular is of, relating to, or connected with muscles while masculine is of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.

As a noun masculine is

the masculine gender.

muscular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or connected with muscles.
  • * 1912 , , A Princess of Mars , chapter 2
  • It was an effort of the mind, of the will, of the nerves; not muscular , for I could not move even so much as my little finger, but none the less mighty for all that.
  • Brawny, thewy, having strength.
  • * 1843 , , Stave Two
  • The arms were very long and muscular ; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength.
  • Having large, well-developed muscles.
  • (figurative) Strong, robust.
  • * 2014 June 9, Samanth Subramanian, " India After English?" (blog post), nybooks.com:
  • Future prime ministers may struggle to replicate the sort of muscular countrywide support that Modi was able to earn.

    Synonyms

    * (of or relating to muscles) myo- * (having strength) athletic, beefy, brawny, husky, lusty, muscled, muscly, powerful, strapping, strong * (having well-developed muscles) beefy, brawny, heavily muscled, husky, musclebound, muscled, muscly, powerfully built, well-built

    Derived terms

    * most muscular * muscular dystrophy

    masculine

    Alternative forms

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
  • Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
  • * :
  • Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
  • Belonging to males; typically used by males.
  • “John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names.
  • Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
  • * :
  • That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
  • * :
  • a masculine church.
  • (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
  • # (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
  • The noun ''Student'' is masculine in German.
  • # (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.
  • German uses the masculine of the definite article, ''der'', with ''Student''.
  • Synonyms

    * (of the male sex) male * (having qualities stereotypical of the male gender) manly, virile

    Antonyms

    * (of the male sex) female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the male gender) emasculated, unmanly, epicene and effeminate * (grammar) feminine, neuter

    Derived terms

    * masculinely * masculineness * masculinity * masculinization * demasculinization * emasculate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) The masculine gender.
  • *
  • (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
  • *
  • That which is masculine.
  • *
  • A man.
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