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muscley

muscley is the alternative form of muscly.

Meaning of muscly

Adjective

muscly (comparative musclier, superlative muscliest)

  1. thewy, muscled
    • One whipcord nerve in the muscly mass from neck to shoulder-blade / Of the mountainous man...1879, Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls
  2. (figuratively) Strong, powerful

Forms of muscley

comparativemore muscley
superlativemost muscley

Origin of muscley

From muscle + -y.

Questions about muscley

What is muscley the alternative form of?
Muscley is the alternative form of muscly.

Words near muscley in the dictionary

  1. musclesome
  2. musclewoman
  3. musclewomen
  4. musclewood
  5. musclewoods
  6. muscley
  7. musclier
  8. muscliest
  9. muscling
  10. muscling in
  11. muscling in on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muscley (page history and authors); muscly (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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