Synonyms for lean
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. lean

   To tilt or tip is to throw out of a horizontal position by raising one side or end or lowering the other; the words are closely similar, but tilt suggests more of fluctuation or instability. Slant and slope are said of things somewhat fixed or permanent in a position out of the horizontal or perpendicular; the roof slants, the hill slopes. Incline is a more formal word for tip, and also for slant or slope. To cant is to set slantingly; in many cases tip and cant might be interchanged, but tip is more temporary, often momentary; one tips a pail so that the water flows over the edge; a mechanic cants a table by making or setting one side higher than the other. A vessel careens in the wind; lists, usually, from shifting of cargo, from water in the hold, etc. Careening is always toward one side or the other; listing may be forward or astern as well. To heel over is the same as to careen, and must be distinguished from "keel over," which is to capsize.

   Synonyms:
   cant, careen, dip, heel over, incline, list, slant, slope, tilt, tip

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. leanverb

   Synonyms:
   incline, rest, support, tend, bend, depend, hang, repose, confide, slope

   Antonyms:
   stabilitate, erect, re-erect, raise, rise, straighten

2. leanadjective

   Synonyms:
   meagre, lank, tabid, emaciated, shrivelled, bony, thin, scraggy, skinny, slender, scanty

   Antonyms:
   fat, brawny, plump, well-conditioned

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaningadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   rock, disceptation, list, magnetic dip, careen, magnetic inclination, angle of dip, sway, leaning, contention, tilt, argument, joust, inclination, controversy, inclination of an orbit, disputation, propensity, contestation, arguing, disposition, tendency, inclining, angle of inclination, proclivity, dip, listing

   Antonyms:
   profitable, sufficient, rich

2. thin, leanadjective

   lacking excess flesh

   "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

   Synonyms:
   slender, sparse, slight, tenuous, fragile, thin, flimsy, skimpy

   Antonyms:
   rich, sufficient, profitable

3. leanadjective

   lacking in mineral content or combustible material

   "lean ore"; "lean fuel"

   Synonyms:
   skimpy, thin

   Antonyms:
   rich, profitable, sufficient

4. lean, skimpyadjective

   containing little excess

   "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

   Synonyms:
   skimpy, thin

   Antonyms:
   sufficient, rich, profitable

5. leanverb

   not profitable or prosperous

   "a lean year"

   Synonyms:
   skimpy, thin

   Antonyms:
   rich, sufficient, profitable

6. lean, tilt, tip, slant, angleverb

   to incline or bend from a vertical position

   "She leaned over the banister"

   Synonyms:
   pitch, topple, run, be given, list, careen, fish, wobble, tiptoe, tip, tip off, fee, tap, shift, tilt, tippytoe, bung, cant over, tumble, incline, cant, angle, slant, weight, tend

   Antonyms:
   sufficient, rich, profitable

7. leanverb

   cause to lean or incline

   "He leaned his rifle against the wall"

   Synonyms:
   slant, run, list, angle, tend, be given, incline, tip, tilt

   Antonyms:
   sufficient, rich, profitable

8. tend, be given, lean, incline, runverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, list, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, move, turn tail, range, run, tilt, function, lead, lam, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, prevail, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, play, die hard, race, pass, pitch, escape, dispose, black market, persist, incline, ladder, draw, hightail it, be given, slope, campaign, angle, tend, run away, ply, guide, melt, tip, slant, run for

   Antonyms:
   profitable, rich, sufficient

9. leanverb

   rely on for support

   "We can lean on this man"

   Synonyms:
   slant, run, list, angle, tend, be given, incline, tip, tilt

   Antonyms:
   rich, sufficient, profitable

10. list, leanverb

    cause to lean to the side

    "Erosion listed the old tree"

    Synonyms:
    slant, run, list, heel, incline, name, tend, number, angle, tip, be given, tilt

    Antonyms:
    rich, sufficient, profitable

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1. • Be
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   • Put
   • Trust

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. leanverb

   Synonyms:
   incline (from a perpendicular)

2. leanverb

   Synonyms:
   recline, bear, rest

3. leanverb

   Synonyms:
   tend, have a tendency

4. leanverb

   Synonyms:
   rest, incline for support

5. leanadjective

   Synonyms:
   thin, poor, gaunt, emaciated, meagre, lank, skinny, fallen away

6. leanadjective

   Synonyms:
   barren, jejune, TAME, prosy, dull

7. leanadjective

   Synonyms:
   scanty, slender, pitiful, inadequate, not full or abundant, not plentiful, not ample, not enough

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1. leanadjective

   Synonyms:
   thin, lank, spare, meager, poor, skinny, gaunt, emaciated, marcid, angular, slender, scant, bare

2. leanverb

   Synonyms:
   incline, slope, recline, tend, rely, depend, careen

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "lean":

   skinny, meagre, thin, meager, tilt, scarce, sleek, scrawny, read, stylized, scant

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lean

   Synonyms:
   MedspeakUK Lean philosophy, lean thinking

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1. Juan Rodriguez:

   Larry Elder is on the ballot here on the recall, but a version of Larry Elder is going to be on the ballot all over the country, and that's an important lesson for Democrats and how they kind of lean into the message that we have done.

2. Acting NHTSA Administrator James Owens:

   We are going to lean in on safety and if we detect a safety problem we will immediately take action.

3. Ambassador Robert King:

   The toughest time in North Korea is the time we're in right now. This is the time when rice supplies from last fall and the harvest from last fall is pretty well running out, and it's still too early to be growing crops that will be able to be used this year. It's the lean period.

4. Chris Eger:

   We have covered several new inventions that have popped up just in the past few months, and you can imagine right now that there are rooms of people burning lean muscle tissue into the night trying to come up with more.

5. Trey Wingo:

   If I were a betting man — and these days I am — I would absolutely lean toward Duke in that contest (against North Carolina) and I would absolutely lean towards Kansas in the other semi because of the injury (to Villanova’s Justin Moore).