All burly synonyms

adj burly

• bulky — Something that is bulky is large and heavy. Bulky things are often difficult to move or deal with.
• hulking — heavy and clumsy; bulky.
• sturdy — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
• athletic — Athletic means relating to athletes and athletics.
• able-bodied — An able-bodied person is physically strong and healthy, rather than being weak or having a disability.
• portly — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
• muscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
• stocky — of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short.
• brawny — Someone who is brawny is strong and has big muscles.
• stout — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.
• beefy — Someone, especially a man, who is beefy has a big body and large muscles.
• strapping — powerfully built; robust.
• strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
• hulky — hulking.
• thickset — set thickly or in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.
• beefcake — Attractive men with large muscles can be referred to as beefcake.
• bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
• eastern lowland gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
• well-built — simple past tense and past participle of build.
• big — A big person or thing is large in physical size.
• hefty — heavy; weighty: a hefty book.
• hunk — a large piece or lump; chunk.
• powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.