Lean
English
Verb
Lean (third-person singular simple present leans, present participle leaning, simple past and past participle leaned or leant (especially British))
Adjective
Lean (comparative leaner, superlative leanest)
- (of a person) slim; not fleshy.
- (of meat) having little fat.
- Having little extra or little to spare.
- Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel.
Adverbs for Lean
placidly; mechanically; gracefully; slantingly; wearily; impulsively; perilously; listlessly; indolently; dizzily; confidentially.
Thesaurus
abstemious, acquiesce, agree, angular, angularity, arid, ascend, ascetic, austere, bad, bald, bank, bare, barren, be agreeable to, be dying to, be eager, be game, be open to, be ready, be spoiling for, be willing, believe in, bend, bend to, bias, bony, candid, cant, careen, climb, collaborate, common, commonplace, conduce, consent, contribute, cooperate, count on, cow, curve, decline, deflect, depend on, descend, destitute, difficult, dip, direct, dispose, divert, drop, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish, emaciated, endanger, exiguous, fall, fall away, fall off, favor, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, frank, frighten, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, go, go along with, go downhill, go uphill, grade, gradient, gravitate, haggard, hard, have a tendency, head, heel, homely, homespun, imperil, impoverished, inclination, incline, indigent, infertile, intimidate, jejune, keel, lank, lanky, lead, lean on, lean towards, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, leaning, leaning tower, limited, list, look, look kindly upon, look to, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, menace, miserly, narrow, natural, neat, necessitous, needy, niggardly, not hesitate to, open, paltry, parsimonious, penurious, pinched, pitch, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plunge, plunge into, point, point to, poor, poverty-stricken, precipitate, prefer, pressure, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puny, pure, rake, rangy, rawboned, recline, redound to, rely on, retreat, rightful, rise, rustic, scant, scanty, scare, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, serve, set, set toward, settle, severe, sheer, shelve, show a tendency, shrunken, sidle, simple, simple-speaking, sink, skeletal, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slant, slender, slight, slim, slope, small, sober, spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, stark, starvation, stingy, stinted, straightforward, straitened, stunted, subside, subsistence, swag, sway, tend, tend to go, terrify, terrorize, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, threaten, tilt, tip, tower of Pisa, trend, trust in, turn, twiggy, unadorned, unaffected, undersized, underweight, unfruitful, unimaginative, unpoetical, unproductive, unvarnished, uprise, verge, warn, warp, wasted, watered, watery, wiry, work toward, would as leave, would as lief
