Sinewy
['sɪnjuːɪ] or ['sɪnjui]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
(a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.
Typist: Sol
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Muscular, brawny, athletic, stalwart, strapping, robust, powerful, sturdy, strong, Herculean, able-bodied, made of iron.
Checker: Sondra
Examples
- His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- His sinewy and powerful hands, as sunburnt as his face, have evidently been used to a pretty rough life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They are very sinewy and strong, are Rouncewell's hands--a little sooty too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He held out his nervous, sinewy hand and took the rabbit by the ears, from Gudrun. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Again I gripped him by the sleeve, and felt the thin, sinewy arm beneath it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Sondra