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musclebound

/ˈmʌsəlˌbaʊnd/

musclebound adjective: having pronounced muscle development through weightlifting, bodybuilding, or other physical exercise.

Adjective

musclebound (comparative more musclebound, superlative most musclebound)

  1. Having pronounced muscle development through weightlifting, bodybuilding, or other physical exercise.
    • Work til you're musclebound all night long / Gotta work til you're musclebound all night long1981, “Musclebound”, in Journeys to Glory, performed by Spandau Ballet
  2. (derogatory) Having excessive muscle (sometimes with implications of correspondingly inferior intellect).
  3. (figuratively) Ungainly as a result of muscle over-development.

musclebound meaning in Bengali

musclebound in Bengali

ভারোত্তোলন, অতিরিক্ত পেশিবহুল

Forms of musclebound

comparativemore musclebound
superlativemost musclebound
alternative formmuscle-bound

Origin of musclebound

From muscle + bound.

Questions about musclebound

What does musclebound mean?
Musclebound means having pronounced muscle development through weightlifting, bodybuilding, or other physical exercise.
What is musclebound in Bengali?
Musclebound in Bengali is ভারোত্তোলন, অতিরিক্ত পেশিবহুল. See Musclebound meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is musclebound?
Musclebound is an adjective.
How do you pronounce musclebound?
Musclebound is pronounced /ˈmʌsəlˌbaʊnd/ (US).

Words near musclebound in the dictionary

  1. muscle-up
  2. muscle-ups
  3. musclebike
  4. musclebikes
  5. muscleblind
  6. musclebound
  7. muscleboy
  8. muscleboys
  9. musclebrain
  10. musclebrains
  11. muscled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: musclebound (page history and authors); musclebound (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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