muscle tone

1. 1.

   normal tonicity of the muscles

   “exercise improves muscle tone”

   Synonymsmuscular tonus

   Broadertonicity

Questions about muscle tone

What does muscle tone mean?

muscle tone means "normal tonicity of the muscles".

What is another word for muscle tone?

Close synonyms include muscular tonus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muscle tone a common word?

muscle tone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.