lean

1. Lacking excess flesh (synset 300991420)
   "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
   also:

   • ectomorphic - having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs
   • thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
   tells us about: body weight - the weight of a person's body
   similar to:

   • anorectic, anorexic - suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
   • 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
   • 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
   • boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy - being very thin
   • shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened - lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
   • slender, slight, slim, svelte - being of delicate or slender 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
   • sylphic, sylphlike - (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph
   • wisplike, wispy - thin and weak
   same as: thin
2. Lacking in mineral content or combustible material (synset 302034381)
   "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
3. Containing little excess (synset 302345258)
   "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
   similar to: deficient, insufficient - of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
   same as: skimpy
4. Not profitable or prosperous (synset 301878342)
   "a lean year"
   similar to: unprofitable - producing little or no profit or gain

1. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical (synset 105075249)
   "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
   is a type of: position, spatial relation - the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
   same as: inclination, leaning, list, tilt

1. To incline or bend from a vertical position (synset 202042202)
   "She leaned over the banister"
   is a type of: bend, flex - form a curve
   subtypes:

   • incline, pitch, slope - be at an angle
   • weather - cause to slope
   • heel, list - tilt to one side
   • lean back, recline - move the upper body backwards and down
   same as: angle, slant, tilt, tip
2. Cause to lean or incline (synset 201609495)
   "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
   is a type of: lay, place, pose, position, put, set - put into a certain place or abstract location
3. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something;
   Be inclined (synset 202725274)
   "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
   is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
   subtypes:

   • take kindly to - be willing or inclined to accept
   • suffer - be given to
   • gravitate - move toward
   same as: be given, incline, run, tend
4. Rely on for support (synset 200690162)
   "We can lean on this man"
   is a type of: trust - have confidence or faith in
5. Cause to lean to the side (synset 202042858)
   "Erosion listed the old tree"
   is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
   same as: list
   verb group: heel, list - tilt to one side

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