lean
Adjective
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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 bodysimilar 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 -
similar to: deficient, insufficient - of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirementsame as: skimpy
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similar to: unprofitable - producing little or no profit or gain
Noun
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is a type of: position, spatial relation - the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
Verb
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subtypes:
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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
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is a type of: trust - have confidence or faith in
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is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motionsame as: list
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