lean
If you lean on something, you incline your body against it, like the way you lean against a wall while waiting in line. If you lean on a person, you rely on her for moral support, like the way you lean on your best friend when you’re feeling sad or worried.
If you’re tired, lean back in your chair. If you’re broke, lean on your family for financial help. But something can lean all by itself, if it’s not standing straight. The famous Tower of Pisa leans at an angle of about 4 degrees. As an adjective, we use lean to describe something skimpy or lacking excess flesh. When you’re experiencing financial difficulty, you could say you’re going through lean (not prosperous) times.
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incline or bend from a vertical position
“She
leaned over the banister”-
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incline, pitch, slope
be at an angle
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weather
cause to slope
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heel, list
tilt to one side
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lean back, recline
move the upper body backwards and down
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ascend
slope upwards
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stoop
sag, bend, bend over or down
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fall
slope downward
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climb
slope upward
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dip
slope downwards
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fall back
fall backwards and down
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cause to lean or incline
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cause to lean to the side
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the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
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synonyms:
inclination, leaning, list, tilt-
type of:
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position, spatial relation
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
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position, spatial relation
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have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
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rely on for support
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containing little excess
“a
lean budget”-
synonyms:
skimpy-
deficient, insufficient
of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
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deficient, insufficient
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lacking excess flesh
“”Yon Cassius has a
lean and hungry look”-Shakespeare”-
synonyms:
thin-
ectomorphic
having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs
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anorectic, anorexic
suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
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bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
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deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed
characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver
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gangling, gangly, lanky
tall and thin
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lank, spindly
long and lean
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rawboned
having a lean and bony physique
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reedlike, reedy
resembling a reed in being upright and slender
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twiggy, twiglike
thin as a twig
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scarecrowish
resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged
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boney, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
being very thin
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shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
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slender, slight, slim, svelte
being of delicate or slender build
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slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted
having a small waist
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spare, trim
thin and fit
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spindle-legged, spindle-shanked
having long slender legs
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stringy, wiry
lean and sinewy
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wisplike, wispy
thin and weak
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thin
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
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Antonyms:
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fat
having an (over)abundance of flesh
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endomorphic, pyknic
having a squat and fleshy build
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abdominous, paunchy, potbellied
having a large belly
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blubbery
swollen with fat
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chubby, embonpoint, plump
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
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buxom, zaftig, zoftig
(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous
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corpulent, obese, rotund, weighty
excessively fat
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double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled
having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw
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dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby
short and plump
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fattish
somewhat fat
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fleshy, heavy, overweight
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
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gross, porcine
repellently fat
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portly, stout
euphemisms for `fat’
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rounded
curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged
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thick
not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
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ectomorphic
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not profitable or prosperous
“a
lean year”-
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unprofitable
producing little or no profit or gain
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unprofitable
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lacking in mineral content or combustible material
“lean ore”“lean fuel”-
Antonyms:
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rich
high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air
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rich