leanness

lean ¹

 (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.

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[Middle English lenen, from Old English hleonian; see klei- in Indo-European roots.]

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lean ²

 (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.

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[Middle English lene, from Old English hlǣne.]

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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.

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	leanness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness inadequacy, 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 necessities spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
	2.	leanness - the property of having little body fat spareness, thinness bodily property - an attribute of the body scrawniness, skinniness - the bodily property of lacking flesh boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) slimness, slenderness, slightness - the property of an attractively thin person wiriness - the property of being lean and tough and sinewy fatness, avoirdupois, blubber, fat - excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"

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Translations

نحافَه، ضَئالَه، نحالَه

hubenost

slankhed

Magerkeit

maigreur

megurî

magrezza

magerhet

yağsızlıkzayıflık

缺乏贫乏

leanness

[ˈliːnnɪs] N

1. [of person, body] → delgadez f; [of animal] → flacura f, flaqueza f

2. [of meat] → lo magro
the meat is valued for its leanness → la carne es muy apreciada por lo magra que es

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leanness

n → Magerkeit f; the leanness of his face → sein schmales Gesicht; (through lack of food) → sein hageres Gesicht

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lean²

(liːn) adjective

1. thin; not fat. a tall, lean man. skraal نَحيف слаб magro hubený mager slank; mager αδύνατοςdelgado, flaco kõhn لاغر؛ نحیف laiha maigreרזה दुबला mršav, vitak sovány kurus grannur, mjósleginn magro やせた 여윈 liesas kalsns; izdilis kurus magermagerchudy ډنګر،ضررمننوكۍ magro uscăţiv тощий chudý vitek vitak mager ผอม zayıf 精瘦的 худий دبلا پتلا gầy 瘦的

2. not containing much fat. lean meat. maer غَيْر دُهني، بلا شَحْم без мазнини magro libový mager mager άπαχοςmagro lahja کم چربی rasvaton maigreכחוש कम mršav, krt sovány tak berlemak magur magro 脂肪の少い 살코기인 liesas (par gaļu) liess; (par ēdienu) bez aizdara tanpa lemak magermagerchudy لږ غوړ لرونكىس magro fără grăsime нежирный, постный chudý pust krt mager มีไขมันน้อย yağsız 瘦的 пісний کم چربی دار nạc 精瘦的

3. poor; not producing much. a lean harvest. skraps ضئيل المَحصول слаб fraco hubený mager mager φτωχός, που δεν παράγει πολλά malo, escaso, pobre kesine کم حاصل niukka maigreדל मज्जाहीन slab, siromašan silány sedikit rÿr, lélegur magro, povero 貧弱な 빈약한 menkas (par ražu u.tml.) nabadzīgs sedikit schraalmager, dårlig, skrinnkiepski لږحاصل لروكى fraco sărac скудный slabý boren mršav mager ไม่อุดมสมบูรณ์ ürünsüz; az 貧乏的，欠收的 убогий; поганий قلیل mất mùa 贫乏的，歉收的

ˈleanness noun

onvrugbaarheid نحافَه، ضَئالَه، نحالَه слабост magreza hubenost die Magerkeit slankhed αδυναμίαdelgadez kõhnus لاغری؛ کم حاصلی niukkuus maigreurרזון दुर्बलता mršavost soványság kekurusan megurð magrezza やせていること 여윈 상태 liesumas kalsnums; nabadzīgums sedikit magertemagerhet chudość ډنګرتوب،بى حاصلى magreza înfăţişare costelivă худоба; скудость chudosť mršavost krtina magerhet, torftighet ความไม่อุดมสมบูรณ์ zayıflık; yağsızlık 精瘦，貧乏 худорба دبلاپن، قلّت 贫乏，缺乏

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