leaner

Adjective

lean (comparative leaner, superlative leanest)

1. Slim; not fleshy.
   • They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger.2024 May 1, ZacharyFurr, “Gym types”, in The In Constant Chronicles

   Synonyms:

   lithe, svelte, willowy, gaunt, gracile, lank, leansome, lithesome, lissome, rangy

2. Having little fat.
   • lean steak cuts
3. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
   • a lean budget

   Synonyms:

   insufficient, scarce, sparse, awanting, deficient, dismal, exiguous, geason, inadequate, lank

4. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
   • A lean ore hardly worth mining.

   Synonyms:

   deficient, dilute, poor

   Antonyms:

   rich

5. (archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
   • lean copy, matter, or type
6. Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
   • lean management

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