What is another word for thews?

Pronunciation: [θjˈuːz] (IPA)

Thews are the muscles or strength of a person's body. Synonyms for thews include brawn, sinew, power, might, and musculature. Brawn refers to the physical strength and muscular development of a person. Sinew is used metaphorically to describe a person's strength and resilience. Power implies physical or mental strength, ability, or force. Might is a word used to describe great strength or power. Finally, musculature refers to the entirety of a person's muscular system. The aforementioned synonyms for thews can be used interchangeably depending on the context in which they are being used.

What are the hypernyms for Thews?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Thews

The complaint of the poor character of the work performed by the agricultural labourer seems also true of other departments, where labour-pure and simple labour of thews and sinews-is concerned.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The biggest lad used his thews and sinews to knock over the lesser without mercy, till the lesser by degrees grew strong enough to retaliate.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Whether or not the man of thews and sinews had been keeping up his constitution injudiciously at the Three Pigeons, certain it was that his brain did not seem in glib working order.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay

Famous quotes with Thews

  • Our country has been populated by pioneers, and therefore it has in it more energy, more enterprise, more expansive power than any other in the wide world. [...] They have shown the qualities of daring, endurance, and far-sightedness, of eager desire for victory and stubborn refusal to accept defeat, which go to make up the essential manliness of the American character. Above all, they have recognized in practical form the fundamental law of success in American life—the law of worthy work, the law of high, resolute endeavor. We have but little room among our people for the timid, the irresolute, and the idle; and it is no less true that there is scant room in the world at large for the nation with mighty thews that dares not to be great.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • "Although he had his faults as a writer, Howard was a natural storyteller, whose narratives are unmatched for vivid, gripping, headlong action. His heroes – King Kull, Conan, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane are larger than life: men of mighty thews., hot passions, and indomitable will, who easily dominate the stories through which they stride. In fiction, the difference between a writer who is a natural storyteller and one who is not is like the difference between a boat that will float and one that will not. If the writer has this quality, we can forgive many other faults; if not, no other virtue can make up for the lack, any more than gleaming paint and sparkling brass on a boat make up for the fact that it will not float." ~ L. Sprague de Camp, Conan of the Isles, "Introduction", 1968
    Robert E. Howard

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