| lean | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. inclination, lean, leaning, list, tilt | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical.; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" |
| ~ spatial relation, position | the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated.; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" |
| v. (motion) | 2. angle, lean, slant, tilt, tip | to incline or bend from a vertical position.; "She leaned over the banister" |
| ~ bend, flex | form a curve.; "The stick does not bend" |
| ~ slope, incline, pitch | be at an angle.; "The terrain sloped down" |
| ~ weather | cause to slope. |
| ~ heel, list | tilt to one side.; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard" |
| ~ lean back, recline | move the upper body backwards and down. |
| v. (contact) | 3. lean | cause to lean or incline.; "He leaned his rifle against the wall" |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| v. (stative) | 4. be given, incline, lean, run, tend | have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ take kindly to | be willing or inclined to accept.; "He did not take kindly to my critical remarks" |
| ~ suffer | be given to.; "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much" |
| ~ gravitate | move toward.; "The conversation gravitated towards politics" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. lean | rely on for support.; "We can lean on this man" |
| ~ rely, trust, swear, bank | have confidence or faith in.; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes" |
| v. (motion) | 6. lean, list | cause to lean to the side.; "Erosion listed the old tree" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ heel, list | tilt to one side.; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard" |
| adj. | 7. lean, thin | lacking excess flesh.; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" |
| ~ ectomorphic | having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs. |
| ~ anorectic, anorexic | suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin. |
| ~ bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" |
| ~ deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed | characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver. |
| ~ gangling, gangly, lanky | tall and thin. |
| ~ spindly, lank | long and lean. |
| ~ rawboned | having a lean and bony physique.; "a rawboned cow hand" |
| ~ reedlike, reedy | resembling a reed in being upright and slender. |
| ~ twiggy, twiglike | thin as a twig. |
| ~ scarecrowish | resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged.; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure" |
| ~ scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, boney, weedy | being very thin.; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" |
| ~ shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled | lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" |
| ~ slender, slim, slight, svelte | being of delicate or slender build.; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" |
| ~ slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted | having a small waist. |
| ~ spare, trim | thin and fit.; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" |
| ~ spindle-legged, spindle-shanked | having long slender legs. |
| ~ stringy, wiry | lean and sinewy. |
| ~ wisplike, wispy | thin and weak.; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet" |
| ~ thin | of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" |
| adj. | 8. lean | lacking in mineral content or combustible material.; "lean ore"; "lean fuel" |
| adj. | 9. lean, skimpy | containing little excess.; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance" |
| ~ insufficient, deficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement.; "insufficient funds" |
| adj. | 10. lean | not profitable or prosperous.; "a lean year" |
| ~ unprofitable | producing little or no profit or gain.; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" |
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