Masculine vs. Muscular — What's the Difference?

Having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men

Of, relating to, or consisting of muscle

Of or denoting a gender of nouns and adjectives, conventionally regarded as male

Having well-developed muscles

The male sex or gender

Having or suggesting great forcefulness, especially at the expense of subtlety

Of or relating to men or boys; male.

(relational) Of, relating to, or connected with muscles.

Characterized by or possessing qualities traditionally attributed to men, such as aggressiveness.

Brawny, thewy, having strength.

(Grammar) Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to males or to things grammatically classified as male.

Having large, well-developed muscles.

(Music) Ending on an accented beat

(figurative) Robust, strong.

The masculine gender.

Full-bodied

A word or word form of the masculine gender.

Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.

(Archaic) A male person.

Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.

Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.

Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.

Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.

Of or relating to or consisting of muscle;

Belonging to males; typically used by males.

Having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer

Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.

Having or suggesting great physical power or force;

(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful;

(of a noun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.

(of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a masculine noun.

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(grammar) The masculine gender.

(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.

That which is masculine.

A man.

Of the male sex; not female.

Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.

Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.

Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.

A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male

Of grammatical gender;

Associated with men and not with women

(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable;