Synonyms: lean, leaning, list, tilt, inclination
Definition: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
Usage: the tower had a pronounced tilt; the ship developed a list to starboard; he walked with a heavy inclination to the right
Similar words: position, spatial relation
Definition: the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
Usage: the position of the hands on the clock; he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage
Synonyms: lean
Definition: rely on for support
Usage: We can lean on this man
Similar words: swear, trust, rely, bank
Definition: have confidence or faith in
Usage: We can trust in God; Rely on your friends; bank on your good education; I swear by my grandmother's recipes
Synonyms: lean
Definition: cause to lean or incline
Usage: He leaned his rifle against the wall
Similar words: put, place, pose, position, set, lay
Definition: put into a certain place or abstract location
Usage: Put your things here; Set the tray down; Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children; Place emphasis on a certain point
Synonyms: slant, tilt, tip, angle, lean
Definition: to incline or bend from a vertical position
Usage: She leaned over the banister
Definition: cause to lean to the side
Usage: Erosion listed the old tree
Similar words: move
Definition: move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
Usage: He moved his hand slightly to the right
Synonyms: tend, be given, run, lean, incline
Definition: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
Usage: She tends to be nervous before her lectures; These dresses run small; He inclined to corpulence
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer
Definition: lacking excess flesh
Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare
Similar words: anorectic, anorexic
Definition: suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
Similar words: haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched
Definition: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Usage: emaciated bony hands; a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys; eyes were haggard and cavernous; small pinched faces; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
Similar words: hollow-eyed, deep-eyed, sunken-eyed
Definition: characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver
Similar words: gangling, gangly, lanky
Definition: tall and thin
Definition: long and lean
Similar words: rawboned
Definition: having a lean and bony physique
Usage: a rawboned cow hand
Similar words: reedlike, reedy
Definition: resembling a reed in being upright and slender
Similar words: twiggy, twiglike
Definition: thin as a twig
Similar words: scarecrowish
Definition: resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged
Usage: a forlorn scarecrowish figure
Similar words: scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, boney, weedy
Definition: being very thin
Usage: a child with skinny freckled legs; a long scrawny neck
Similar words: withered, wizen, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken
Definition: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Usage: the old woman's shriveled skin; he looked shriveled and ill; a shrunken old man; a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws-W.F.Starkie; he did well despite his withered arm; a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
Similar words: slender, slight, slim, svelte
Definition: being of delicate or slender build
Usage: she was slender as a willow shoot is slender- Frank Norris; a slim girl with straight blonde hair; watched her slight figure cross the street
Similar words: slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted
Definition: having a small waist
Definition: thin and fit
Usage: the spare figure of a marathon runner; a body kept trim by exercise
Similar words: spindle-legged, spindle-shanked
Definition: having long slender legs
Definition: lean and sinewy
Similar words: wisplike, wispy
Definition: thin and weak
Usage: a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet- Edmund Wilson
Synonyms: lean
Definition: not profitable or prosperous
Usage: a lean year
Similar words: unprofitable
Definition: producing little or no profit or gain
Usage: deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable
Definition: containing little excess
Usage: a lean budget; a skimpy allowance
Similar words: deficient, insufficient
Definition: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
Usage: insufficient funds