Overmuscled

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively muscled.

    "Rodriguez, like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire before him, is an overmuscled player with freakishly distorted statistics who abetted the distortion of a sport that, when played on the square, rewards homelier virtues like guile and speed."

Example

More examples

"Rodriguez, like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire before him, is an overmuscled player with freakishly distorted statistics who abetted the distortion of a sport that, when played on the square, rewards homelier virtues like guile and speed."

Etymology

From over- + muscled.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.