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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole, bony, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lank, lanky, meager, no fat, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stick, stilt, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, unfruitful, unproductive, wasted, wiry, wizened, worn |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be disposed |
| Synonyms: | be prone, be willing, favor, gravitate toward, have propensity, incline, look, not mind, prefer, tend |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | dislike, not like |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | count, depend on |
| Synonyms: | bank on, believe in, bet bottom dollar, bet on, confide, gamble on, have faith, hinge on, lay money on, put faith in, rely, trust |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | disregard, forget |
| Main Entry: | angular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin, especially referring to people |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bony, gangling, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, rangy, rawboned, scrawny, sharp, skinny, spare |
| Antonyms: | fat, heavy, thick, weighted |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | angle, arc, bending, bow, corner, crook, curvation, curvature, deflection, deviation, flection, flexure, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
| Synonyms: | angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | careen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tilt; move wildly down path |
| Synonyms: | bend, lean, lurch, pitch, sway, tilt |
| Notes: | careen has a nautical origin and is a side-to-side trajectory while career is a headlong high-speed trajectory |
| Main Entry: | concise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short, to the point |
| Synonyms: | abridged, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compact, compendiary, compendious, compressed, condensed, curt, epigrammatic, in a nutshell, laconic, lean, marrowy, meaty, pithy, short and sweet, succinct, summary, synoptic, terse |
| Notes: | use terse to characterize brevity or succinctness of expression in a person; concise is used to characterize this in a message |
| Antonyms: | expansive, lengthy, long, long-winded, redundant, repetitive, wordy |
| Main Entry: | droop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hang down; languish |
| Synonyms: | bend, dangle, decline, depress, diminish, drop, fade, fail, faint, fall down, flag, lean, let down, loll, lop, sag, settle, sink, sling, slouch, slump, subside, suspend, weaken, wilt, wither |
| Antonyms: | inflate, rise |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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