thin#3 (a)
lean#4 (a)

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type a
lex_filenum 00
def lacking excess flesh
examples you can't be too rich or too thin
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look Shakespeare
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Also see ectomorphic; thin
Attribute body weight
Derivationally related form lean → leanness
Derivationally related form thin → thinness
Antonym thin → fat
Similar to anorexic, anorectic; bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted; deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed; gangling, gangly, lanky; lank, spindly; rawboned; reedy, reedlike; twiggy, twiglike; scarecrowish; scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy; shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened; slender, slight, slim, svelte; slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted; spare, trim; spindle-legged, spindle-shanked; stringy, wiry; wisplike, wispy
Incoming links
Also see ectomorphic; thin
Antonym fat → thin
Similar to anorexic, anorectic; bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted; deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed; gangling, gangly, lanky; lank, spindly; rawboned; reedy, reedlike; twiggy, twiglike; scarecrowish; scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy; shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened; slender, slight, slim, svelte; slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted; spare, trim; spindle-legged, spindle-shanked; stringy, wiry; wisplike, wispy
Derivationally related form thinness → thin
Derivationally related form leanness → lean
Attribute body weight

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