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leanness
lean 1 L0089300 (lēn)v. leaned, lean·ing, leans v.intr.1. To bend or slant away from the vertical.2. To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported: leaning against the doorpost. See Synonyms at slant.3. To rely for assistance or support: Lean on me for help.4. To have a tendency or preference: a government that leans toward fascism.5. Informal To exert pressure: The boss is leaning on us to meet the deadline.v.tr.1. To set or place so as to be resting or supported: leaned the ladder against the wall.2. To cause to incline: leaned the boards so the rain would run off.n. A tilt or an inclination away from the vertical.
[Middle English lenen, from Old English hleonian; see klei- in Indo-European roots.]
lean 2 L0089300 (lēn)adj. lean·er, lean·est 1. a. Not fleshy or fat; thin.b. Containing little fat or less fat relative to a standard: lean hamburger.2. a. Not productive or prosperous; meager: lean years.b. Containing little excess or waste; spare: a lean budget.c. Thrifty in management, especially by employing just enough people to accomplish a task or do business: "Company leaders know their industries must be lean to survive" (Christian Science Monitor).3. a. Metallurgy Low in mineral contents: lean ore.b. Chemistry Lacking in combustible material: lean fuel.n. Meat with little or no fat.
[Middle English lene, from Old English hlǣne.]
lean′ly adv.lean′ness n.Synonyms: lean2, skinny, scrawny, lank, lanky, gaunt
These adjectives mean lacking excess flesh. Lean emphasizes absence of fat but usually suggests good health: The farmer fattened the lean cattle for market. Skinny and scrawny imply unattractive thinness, as from undernourishment: "His face and belly were so round, and his arms so skinny, that he looked like a dough ball with four sticks stuck into it" (John Green)."He [had] a long, scrawny neck that rose out of a very low collar" (Winston Churchill).
Lank describes one who is thin and tall, and lanky one who is thin, tall, and ungraceful: "He was ... exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders" (Washington Irving).
The boy had developed into a lanky adolescent. Gaunt implies boniness and a haggard appearance; it may suggest illness or hardship: a white-haired pioneer, her face gaunt from overwork.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  leanness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliotexiguity, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poornessinadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"wateriness - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"abstemiousness - restricted to bare necessitiesspareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | | 2. | leanness - the property of having little body fatspareness, thinnessbodily property - an attribute of the bodyscrawniness, skinniness - the bodily property of lacking fleshboniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)slimness, slenderness, slightness - the property of an attractively thin personwiriness - the property of being lean and tough and sinewyfatness, avoirdupois, blubber, fat - excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" |
Translationslean2 (liːn) adjective1. thin; not fat. a tall, lean man. 精瘦的 瘦的2. not containing much fat. lean meat. 瘦的 精瘦的3. poor; not producing much. a lean harvest. 貧乏的，欠收的 贫乏的，歉收的 ˈleanness noun 精瘦，貧乏 贫乏，缺乏 IdiomsSeeleanEncyclopediaSeeLeanleanness
Synonyms for leannessnoun the quality of being meagerSynonyms- exiguity
- meagerness
- meagreness
- scantiness
- scantness
- poorness
Related Words- inadequacy
- deficiency
- insufficiency
- wateriness
- abstemiousness
- spareness
- sparseness
- sparsity
- thinness
noun the property of having little body fatSynonymsRelated Words- bodily property
- scrawniness
- skinniness
- boniness
- bonyness
- emaciation
- gauntness
- maceration
- slimness
- slenderness
- slightness
- wiriness
Antonyms- fatness
- avoirdupois
- blubber
- fat
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