lean (2) — OET

lean2

adjective

1 a tall, lean, aristocratic man:

slim, thin, slender, rangy, spare, wiry, slight;

lissom, svelte, willowy, sylphlike;

skinny, scrawny, scraggy, lanky, lank, bony, gaunt, emaciated, skin and bones, raw-boned, rangy, gangling, spindly, skeletal, size-zero, angular, pinched.

▷antonyms fat.

2 lean meat:

non-fatty, unfatty.

▷antonyms fatty.

3 a lean harvest:

meagre, scanty, sparse, poor, scant, mean, inadequate, insufficient, paltry, limited, restricted, modest, deficient, insubstantial, slight.

▷antonyms abundant, plentiful.

4 too often in lean times the poorest are asked to make the largest sacrifices:

unproductive, unfruitful, unprofitable, unremunerative, arid, barren;

hard, bad, difficult, tough, impoverished, poverty-stricken, moneyless.

▷antonyms productive, prosperous.

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lean (2) Oxford Dictionary of English