English > lean: 10 senses > adjective 1Meaning | lacking excess flesh. |
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Example | "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare |
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Synonym | thin |
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Attribute of | body weight | The weight of a person's body |
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Narrower | anorexic, anorectic | Suffering from anorexia nervosa |
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cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted | Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed | characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver |
gangling, gangly, lanky | tall and thin |
lank, spindly | long and lean |
rawboned | Having a lean and bony physique |
reedy, reedlike | resembling a reed in being upright and slender |
scarecrowish | resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged |
scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy | Very thin |
shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened | Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness |
slender, slight, slim, svelte | Of delicate or slender build / build |
slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted | Having a small waist |
spare, trim | Thin and fit |
spindle-legged, spindle-shanked | Having long slender legs |
stringy, wiry | Lean and sinewy |
sylphlike, sylphic | (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph |
twiggy, twiglike | Thin as a twig |
wisplike, wispy | Thin and weak |
See also | ectomorphic | Having a build / build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs |
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thin | Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
Opposite | fat | Having an (over)abundance of flesh |
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Spanish | delgado, esbelto, flaco, magro |
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Catalan | prim |
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Nouns | leanness | the property of having little body fat |
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English > lean: 10 senses > verb 2, contactMeaning | Cause to lean or incline. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
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Model | They lean their rifles on the cabinet |
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Example | "He leaned his rifle against the wall" |
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Broader | put, set, place, pose, position, lay | Put into a certain place or abstract location |
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Spanish | apoyarse, apoyar, reclinar, recostar |
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Catalan | reclinar, recolzar se, recolzar, repenjar |
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Nouns | lean | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical |
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leaner | (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake |