Leans Synonyms and Antonyms

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tilts
  2. lists
  3. tips
  4. angularities
  5. slopes
  6. slants
  7. rakes
  8. inclinations
  9. heels
  10. leanings
  11. grades
  12. cants
  13. gradients
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tends
  2. runs
  3. trends
  4. inclines
  5. squints
  6. slants
  7. favors
Antonyms:
  1. dislikes
  2. disregards
  3. forgets
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To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slants

Leans Sentence Examples

  • He leans on me like I'm the only person in the world.

  • Yet on the whole Aristotle leans to a teleological theory of evolution, which he interprets dualistually by means of certain metaphysical distinctions.

  • Its upper end forms the acrocoracoid process, against the inner surface of which leans the proximal portion of the clavicle.

  • As for the influence he exercised on posterity, it is enough to say that Luca Pacioli, about 1500, in his celebrated Summa, leans so exclusively to Leonardo's works (at that time known in manuscript only) that he frankly acknowledges his dependence on them, and states that wherever no other author is quoted all belongs to Leonardus Pisanus.

  • The results to which the preponderance of opinion leans are given in the following table.

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