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athletic - 19 thesaurus results
Main Entry: athletic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: agile; prepared to participate in sports
Synonyms: able-bodied, active, brawny, energetic, fit, lusty, muscular, powerful, robust, strapping, strong, sturdy, vigorous
Antonyms: unathletic
Main Entry: athletic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: relating to sports
Synonyms: competitive, sporting, team, contesting, exercise-related, recreational
Main Entry: agile
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: physically or mentally nimble, deft
Synonyms: active, acute, alert, athletic, brisk, buoyant, clever, dexterous, energetic, fleet, frisky, limber, lithe, lively, mercurial, prompt, quick, quick-witted, rapid, ready, sharp, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, stirring, supple, swift, vigorous, vivacious, winged, zippy, bustling, easy-moving, quick on the draw, quick on the trigger, spright, twinkle toes
Antonyms: brittle, clumsy, stiff
Main Entry: brawny
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: muscular, strong
Synonyms: able-bodied, athletic, beefy, bulky, burly, fleshy, hardy, hefty, husky, powerful, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strapping, sturdy, tough, vigorous, vital, thewy
Antonyms: frail, skinny, slight, thin, weak
Main Entry: burly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: husky
Synonyms: able-bodied, athletic, beefy*, big, brawny, bulky, hefty, hulking, hunk, muscular, portly, powerful, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, beefcake, bruising, gorillalike, hulky, thickset, well-built
Antonyms: light, slim, small, thin
Main Entry: muscular
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: powerfully built
Synonyms: Herculean*, able-bodied, athletic, brawny, burly, fibrous, hefty, husky, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, sinewy, stalwart, stout, strapping, stringy, strong, sturdy, tiger*, tough, vigorous, wiry, bruising, hulky, muscled, powerhouse, pumped up, ripped, ropy, well-built
Antonyms: delicate, flabby, infirm, skinny, weak
Main Entry: robust
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy, strong
Synonyms: able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, brawny, built, concentrated, fit, flourishing, full-bodied, hale, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful, prosperous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping, sturdy, thriving, tiger*, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked*, zippy*, booming, fit as fiddle, in fine fettle, in good health, in good shape, in the pink, powerhouse, prospering, roaring, robustious, robustuous, zappy
Antonyms: flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak
Main Entry: sinewy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stringy, tough
Synonyms: athletic, brawny, fibrous, firm, hard, leathery, muscular, powerful, strong, sturdy, vigorous
Main Entry: stalwart
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strong, valiant
Synonyms: athletic, bold, bound, bound and determined, brave, brawny, courageous, daring, dauntless, dependable, fearless, forceful, gutsy*, hefty, husky, indomitable, intrepid, lusty, muscular, nervy*, redoubtable, robust, rugged, sinewy, solid, spunky*, staunch, steamroller, stout, stouthearted, strapping, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tough, unafraid, undaunted, valorous, vigorous, brick-wall, dead set on, hanging tough, powerhouse
Antonyms: cowardly, meek, weak
Main Entry: sturdy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: solid, durable
Synonyms: athletic, bulky, determined, firm, flourishing, hardy, hearty, hefty, hulking, husky, lusty, muscular, powerful, resolute, robust, rugged, secure, sound, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, stiff, stout, stouthearted, strapping, strong, strong-arm*, substantial, tenacious, tough, unyielding, vigorous, well-made, built to last, powerhouse, well-built
Antonyms: unstable, weak, wobbly
Main Entry: vigorous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: energetic, powerful
Synonyms: active, athletic, brisk, dashing, driving, dynamic, effective, efficient, enterprising, exuberant, flourishing, forceful, forcible, hale, hardy, healthy, hearty, intense, lively, lusty, mettlesome, peppy, persuasive, potent, robust, rugged, snappy, sound, spanking, spirited, steamroller, strapping, strenuous, strong, sturdy, tough, vital, zealous, zippy*, ball of fire, bouncing, hard-driving, red-blooded*, strong as an ox, take-charge, take-over
Notes: rigorous means demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; vigorous means strong and active physically or mentally
Antonyms: enervated, idle, impotent, inactive, lethargic, weak
Main Entry: wiry
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: thin and strong
Synonyms: agile, athletic, bristly, fibrous, lean, light, limber, muscular, sinewy, stiff, strapping, stringy, supple, tough, ropy
Antonyms: small, tiny
Main Entry: handsome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: attractive
Synonyms: admirable, aristocratic, athletic, august, beautiful, becoming, clean-cut, comely, dapper, elegant, fair, fashionable, fine, good-looking, graceful, impressive, lovely, majestic, noble, personable, robust, sharp, smart, smooth, spruce, stately, strong, stylish, suave, virile, pulchritudinous, well-dressed, well-proportioned
Antonyms: homely, ugly, unattractive
Main Entry: strong
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy, powerful
Synonyms: able, able-bodied, active, athletic, big, capable, durable, enduring, energetic, firm, fixed, forceful, forcible, hale, hardy, hearty, heavy, mighty, muscular, reinforced, robust, rugged, secure, sinewy, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stark, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tough, unyielding, vigorous, well-founded, well-made, hard as nails, heavy-duty, in fine feather, well-built
Antonyms: feeble, infirm, unhealthy, weak, unpowerful
Main Entry: healthy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: in good condition
Synonyms: able-bodied, active, all right, athletic, blooming, chipper*, firm, fit, flourishing, fresh, hale, hardy, healthful, hearty, husky, lively, lusty, muscular, normal, potent, restored, robust, sound, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, trim, unimpaired, vigorous, virile, well, whole, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, full of life, in fine feather, in fine fettle, in good shape, in the pink, physically fit, rosy-cheeked, safe and sound
Antonyms: diseased, fragile, ill, indisposed, infirm, poor, sick, sickly, unhealthy, worn, delicated
Main Entry: stout
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strong, brawny
Synonyms: able-bodied, athletic, hard, hardy, hulking, husky, indomitable, invincible, lusty, muscular, robust, stable, stalwart, staunch, strapping, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tough, vigorous
Antonyms: weak
Main Entry: built
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: muscular
Synonyms: athletic, beefy, brawny, powerful, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, pumped up
Antonyms: puny, weak
Main Entry: rugged
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: big, strong
Synonyms: able-bodied, athletic, brawny, energetic, forceful, hale, hardy, healthy, husky, indefatigable, lusty, muscular, robust, sturdy, tough, unflagging, vigorous, well-built
Antonyms: small, tiny, weak
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Main Entry: power
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
male, able, able-bodied, adamantine, adequate, all-powerful, almighty, antaean, athletic, atlantean, bellipotent, brawny, broad-shouldered, buirdly, capable, cervicose, cogent, competent, cryptodynamic, cyclopean, deep-rooted, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, endothermic, equal to, exothermic, forcible, galliard, gigantic, hard, hardy, herculean, ignipotent, impregnable, in fine feather, in full force, in full swing, in high feather, in the plenitude of power, incontestable, indomitable, inextinguishable, influential, invincible, irresistible, like a giant refreshed, made of iron, manful, manlike, manly, masculine, maximious, mighty, more than a match for, multipotent, muscular, omnipotent, overpowering, overwhelming, plenipotent, potent, potential, powerful, productive, proof against, puissant, resistless, robust, rounceval, sinewy, sound as a roach, sovereign, stalwart, sthenic, stout, strapping, strong, strong as a horse, strong as a lion, strong as brandy, stubborn, sturdy, thick-ribbed, unallayed, unconquerable, unexhausted, unquenchable, unshaken, unweakened, unwithered, unworn, up to, valid, vigorous, virile, well-knit, wight, wiry, yauld
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