Crossword clues for leanest
leanest
- Most meager
- Most austere
- Most spare
- Most svelte
- Most slender
- Most efficient
- Most thin
- Most pleasing to Jack Sprat
- Maximally slender
- Least fat
- Having the most to gain?
- Streamlined to the max
- Most rawboned
- Most healthful, as meat
- Like the healthiest corned beef
- Like buffalo, red meatwise
- Like buffalo meat vis-à-vis beef and pork
- Best, as pastrami goes
- Most trim
- Most economical in business
- Like the most expensive hamburger meat
- Like the most expensive chopped meat
- Lowest in fat
- Like buffalo meat vis-Г -vis beef and pork
- Having the least fat
- Most suitable for Sprat
- Least fatty, as corned beef
- Least pyknic
- Most gaunt
- Least pinguid
- Most barren
- Like the best cut of meat
- Very thin ale sent for replacement
- Most unproductive place for meadowlark's eggs?
- Least productive 20th-century director is French
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lean \Lean\ (l[=e]n), a. [Compar. Leaner (l[=e]n"[~e]r); superl. Leanest.] [OE. lene, AS. hl[=ae]ne; prob. akin to E. lean to incline. See Lean, v. i. ]
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; slim; not plump; slender; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
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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. ``No lean wardrobe.''
--Shak.Their lean and flashy songs.
--Milton.What the land is, whether it be fat or lean.
--Num. xiii. 20.Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something.
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(Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
Syn: slender; spare; thin; meager; lank; skinny; gaunt.
Wiktionary
(en-superlative of: lean) v
(en-archaic second-person singular of lean English)