Leant Synonyms and Antonyms

lent
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tended
  2. trended
  3. run
  4. inclined
  5. squinted
  6. slanted
  7. favored
Antonyms:
  1. disregarded
  2. disliked
  3. forgotten
Cause to lean to the side
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tilted
  2. tipped
  3. sloped
  4. slanted
  5. bent
  6. listed
  7. angled
  8. veered
  9. thinned
  10. inclined
  11. tended
  12. stooped
  13. canted
  14. spared
  15. pitched
  16. dipped
  17. heeled
  18. drifted
  19. slimmed
  20. drooped
  21. reclined
  22. raked
  23. rolled
  24. pressured
  25. placed
  26. preferred
  27. twisted
  28. bowed
  29. depended
  30. curved
  31. declined
  32. sunk
  33. sagged
  34. bared
Antonyms:
  1. straightened
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To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slanted

Leant Sentence Examples

  • In practice, he leant constantly towards laxity.

  • The Jacobins leant on the revolutionary commune and the mob of Paris; the Girondins leant on the thriving burghers of the provincial cities.

  • This weak king leant for support upon the nobles of Burgundy and Austrasia, impatient as they were of obedience to a woman and the representative of Rome.

  • As she leant hopelessly against a wall, it miraculously fell inwards to make a niche for her.

  • His empire is thus quite different in character from the Parthian kingdom of the Arsacids, which had no national and religious basis but leant towards Hellenism, and whose organization had always been very loose.

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