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| 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 |
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| Main Entry: | bushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaggy, unkempt |
| Synonyms: | bristly, disordered, feathery, fluffy, fringed, full, fuzzy, hairy, heavy, hirsute, leafy, luxuriant, nappy, prickly, rough, spreading, stiff, thick, tufted, unruly, wiry, woolly, bristling, furry, rumpled |
| Antonyms: | bald, neat, well-kept |
| Main Entry: | fibrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stringy |
| Synonyms: | coarse, hairy, muscular, sinewy, threadlike, wiry, woody, fibroid, pulpy, ropy, stalky, tissued, veined |
| Antonyms: | nonfibrous |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole*, bony, emaciated, gangling, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lanky, meager, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stick, stringy, svelte, unfruitful, unproductive, wasted, wiry, wizened, worn, gangly, lank, no fat, scraggy, stilt, sylphlike, twiggy |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lissom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supple |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, agile, bending, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lithe, loose, malleable, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber, springy, wiry, bendable, lithesome, moldable, stretchy |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stringy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long, thin |
| Synonyms: | fibrous, gangling, lanky, muscular, sinewy, spindly, threadlike, tough, wiry, gristly, lank, reedy, ropy, spindling |
| Main Entry: | supple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, agile, bending, ductile, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lissome, lithe, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber, springy, stretch, svelte, willowy, wiry, yielding, lithesome, moldable, stretchy |
| Antonyms: | hard, rigid, stiff, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | spare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin; sparse |
| Synonyms: | angular, bony, economical, exiguous, frugal, gaunt, lanky, lean, meager, modest, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scrawny, shadow, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sparing, stick, stingy, wiry, lank, scant, scraggy, stilt |
| Antonyms: | fat, thick |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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