Synonyms for brawn
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
Related words
- Word family
- brawny
Forms
- Plural
- brawns → muscles, muscularities, sinews, mights…
Example sentences
- muscle Hence 50 percent of the muscle can give way to fat.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| brawn | rising | |
| muscle | steady | |
| sinew | rising | |
| muscularity | rising | |
| heftiness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- might1, sinew
- 6 letters
- muscle2
- 9 letters
- heftiness
- 10 letters
- brawniness
- 11 letters
- muscularity
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (muscle2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- fromage de tête
- Deutsch
- Presskopf