leanness

English Thesaurus

1. the property of having little body fat (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	bodily property,
definition	:	an attribute of the body (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	scrawniness, skinniness,
definition	:	the bodily property of lacking flesh (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration,
definition	:	extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	slenderness, slightness, slimness,
definition	:	the property of an attractively thin person (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	wiriness,
definition	:	the property of being lean and tough and sinewy (noun.attribute)

2. the quality of being meager (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency,
definition	:	lack of an adequate quantity or number (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	wateriness,
definition	:	meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	abstemiousness,
definition	:	restricted to bare necessities (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness,
definition	:	the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness (noun.attribute)

3. the property of having little body fat (noun.attribute)

antonym	:	avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness,
definition	:	excess bodily weight (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	lean, thin,
definition	:	lacking excess flesh (adj.all)

4. the quality of being meager (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy,
definition	:	deficient in amount or quality or extent (adj.all)

derivation	:	bare, scanty, spare,
definition	:	lacking in amplitude or quantity (adj.all)

derivation	:	exiguous,
definition	:	extremely scanty (adj.all)

derivation	:	lean,
definition	:	not profitable or prosperous (adj.all)

derivation	:	poor,
definition	:	lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances (adj.all)

derivation	:	lean,
definition	:	lacking in mineral content or combustible material (adj.all)

derivation	:	inadequate, poor, short,
definition	:	not sufficient to meet a need (adj.all)

derivation	:	lean, skimpy,
definition	:	containing little excess (adj.all)

derivation	:	light, scant, short,
definition	:	less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so (adj.all)

5. the property of having little body fat (noun.attribute)

antonym	:	avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness,
definition	:	excess bodily weight (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	lean, thin,
definition	:	lacking excess flesh (adj.all)

6. the quality of being meager (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy,
definition	:	deficient in amount or quality or extent (adj.all)

derivation	:	bare, scanty, spare,
definition	:	lacking in amplitude or quantity (adj.all)

derivation	:	exiguous,
definition	:	extremely scanty (adj.all)

derivation	:	lean,
definition	:	not profitable or prosperous (adj.all)

derivation	:	poor,
definition	:	lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances (adj.all)

derivation	:	lean,
definition	:	lacking in mineral content or combustible material (adj.all)

derivation	:	inadequate, poor, short,
definition	:	not sufficient to meet a need (adj.all)

derivation	:	lean, skimpy,
definition	:	containing little excess (adj.all)

derivation	:	light, scant, short,
definition	:	less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so (adj.all)