lean

lean is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To conceal. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To conceal.
2. intransitive verb. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
3. intransitive verb. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
4. intransitive verb. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
5. intransitive verb. To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
6. intransitive verb. Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
7. intransitive verb. Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
8. intransitive verb. Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
9. noun. That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
10. noun. Unremunerative copy or work.
11. noun. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical

    "the tower had a pronounced tilt"

    "the ship developed a list to starboard"

    Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt

12. verb. rely on for support

    "We can lean on this man"

13. verb. cause to lean or incline

    "He leaned his rifle against the wall"

14. verb. to incline or bend from a vertical position

    "She leaned over the banister"

    Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip

15. verb. cause to lean to the side

    "Erosion listed the old tree"

    Synonyms: list

16. verb. have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined

    "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"

    "These dresses run small"

    Synonyms: incline, run, tend

17. adjective. lacking excess flesh-Shakespeare

    "you can't be too rich or too thin"

    "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"

    Synonyms: thin

18. adjective. not profitable or prosperous

    "a lean year"

19. adjective. lacking in mineral content or combustible material

    "lean ore"

    "lean fuel"

20. adjective. containing little excess

    "a lean budget"

    "a skimpy allowance"

    Synonyms: skimpy

Synonyms

inclination, leaning, list, tilt, angle, slant, tip, incline, run, tend, thin, skimpy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lean:

alen, elan, laen, lane, lena, nael, nale, neal

Common word forms

leans, leaned, leaner, leanly, leanest, leaning, leanness

Words from these letters

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