Word for a male with a nice body? [closed]
What is a common adjective to describe a guy with a nice physique?
Solution 1:
Consider Hunk, from TFD
a large, strong, sexually attractive man.
"a Hollywood hunk"
synonyms: muscleman, strongman, macho
To use it as an adjective, try hunky.
"The sexy stars fell out over hunky footballer Lee"
Solution 2:
Well, not an area of the language that I commonly delve into, but for those with a classical bent there's Adonis.
Solution 3:
There is a pitfall here in that some of the available words (of which there are not many specifically for physique) have a connotation of physical attraction of the speaker to the male subject.
Types of body-describing adjectives include :
relatively objective physical judgement analogous to Body Mass Index. Chiseled, built, ripped essentially state that the person is in the upper percentiles of muscularity. Fit is less specific, but conveys the same judgement for overall physical fitness. One can imagine these words as a condensed summary of medical and athletic tests, and they say nothing about what the speaker finds attractive or not.
a relatively distanced social judgement such as movie-star good looks or handsome. These describe a presumed typical response of the "average person on the street" to the subject's appearance, or how that appearance fits some presumed norms of beauty. Strapping is one of the very few words in this category that might apply to male physique.
breathless adjectives like hunk (hunky even more so), beefcake, and in some contexts Adonis, that sound like they are drawn from conversations of male homosexuals or teenage girls about men they find attractive. Using these words can create the impression that the speaker is describing their own attraction to the subject beyond what the general population might see in the same male.
A test for neutrality versus breathless praise might be: would one heterosexual male talking to another plausibly use the term about a third? In the environments I'm familiar with, studly passes this test, hunky fails it badly, Adonis sometimes passes and often fails.
Solution 4:
Consider,
studly
Slang. virilely attractive; muscular and handsome. [1955–60]
stud: Slang. a usually young man regarded as attractive and well-built. FOD
hot
Slang. sexually attractive. FOD