Antonyms for leannesslean·ness

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1. meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguitynoun

   the quality of being meager

   "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

   Antonyms:
   blubber, avoirdupois, fatness, fat

   Synonyms:
   meagerness, thinness, poorness, impoverishment, spareness, exiguity, meagreness, poverty, scantness, scantiness

2. leanness, thinness, sparenessnoun

   the property of having little body fat

   Antonyms:
   blubber, fatness, avoirdupois, fat

   Synonyms:
   poorness, sparseness, slenderness, thinness, sparsity, spareness, exiguity, fineness, tenuity, meagreness, meagerness, scantiness, scantness

How to use leanness in a sentence?

1. Elizabeth Gaskell:

   He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

2. David Anderson:

   It looks to me like they're doing studies to determine if the lower dosages are efficacious in improving feed efficiency, growth rate and carcass leanness.

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