sinewy

Questions about sinewy

What does sinewy mean?

sinewy means "(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sinewy?

sinewy has 3 syllables: sin-e-wy. The stress falls on "sin". In IPA it is /ˈsɪnjui/.

What is another word for sinewy?

Close synonyms include fibrous, stringy, unchewable, tendinous, brawny. 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 sinewy a common word?

sinewy 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.