1. To incline or bend from a vertical position
   - tilt, tip, slant, angle 
2. Cause to lean or incline 
3. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
   - tend, be given, incline, run 
4. Rely on for support
   "We can lean on this man" 
5. Cause to lean to the side
   - list

1. Lacking excess flesh
   "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
   - thin 
2. Lacking in mineral content or combustible material
   "lean ore"; "lean fuel" 
3. Containing little excess
   "a lean budget"
   - skimpy 
4. Not profitable or prosperous
   "a lean year"

1. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
   - tilt, list, inclination, leaning

Sounds like: lien

Derived forms: leans, leaning, leanest, leaner, leant, leaned

See also: anorectic, anorexic, body weight, boney, bony, cadaverous, deep-eyed, deficient, ectomorphic, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, hollow-eyed, insufficient, lank, lanky, lean against, leaner, leanness, pinched, rawboned, reedlike, reedy, scarecrowish, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled [US], shrivelled [Brit, Cdn], shrunken, skeletal, skinny, slender, slender-waisted, slight, slim, slim-waisted, spare, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, spindly, stringy, sunken-eyed, svelte, thin, trim, twiggy, twiglike, underweight, unprofitable, wasp-waisted, wasted, weedy, wiry, wisplike, wispy, withered, wizen, wizened

Type of: bank, be, bend, flex, lay, move, place, pose, position, put, rely, set, spatial relation, swear, trust

Antonym: rich

Encyclopedia: Lean Lean, Sir David

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